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Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. The chapters 'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse' and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Author Biography:

Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK Pascal Bastien, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Song-Chuan Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zoe Dyndor, University of Leicester, UK Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter, UK Alexander Kästner, Technical University Dresden, Germany James Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland Evelyne Luef, University of Vienna, Austria Steve Poole, University of the West of England, UK Caroline Sharples, University of Sussex, UK
Release date NZ
October 4th, 2015
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributor
  • Edited by Richard Ward
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Illustrations
7 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 313 p. 7 illus.
Pages
313
Dimensions
140x216x23
ISBN-13
9781137443991
Product ID
23052201

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