A Global History of Execution and the Criminal CorpseRichard Ward 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. |
Contents
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Execution and the Executed Body in EighteenthCentury Ireland | 37 |
CrimeScene Executions in England 17201830 | 71 |
Locating the Criminal Corpse in MidEighteenthCentury England | 102 |
Three Experiences of Dying as Seen Through EighteenthCentury French Executions | 126 |
Punishing and Utilising the Early Modern Suicide Corpse | 147 |
6 Execution and its Aftermath in the NineteenthCentury British Empire | 170 |
Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism | 199 |
Execution and PostExecution Display in Africa c 18702000 | 220 |
9 Burying the Past? The PostExecution History of Nazi War Criminals | 249 |
Bibliography | 272 |
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