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010 $a 2015001320
020 $a9781137443991 (hardback)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aHV8551$b.G56 2015
082 00 $a364.6609$223
084 $aHIS037000$aHIS037030$aHIS054000$2bisacsh
245 02 $aA global history of execution and the criminal corpse /$cedited by Richard Ward.
263 $a1505
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Across many different times and places the criminal corpse has been harnessed for the ends of state power, medical science, criminal justice, and political subversion, amongst other things. This collection of essays for the first time examines execution practice and the punishment of the criminal corpse across a wide chronological and geographical span, ranging from eighteenth-century England to nineteenth-century India and twentieth-century Africa. Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment which forces us to rethink current metanarratives of penal practice and change"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Foreword; Pieter SpierenburgIntroduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse; Richard Ward1. Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; James Kelly2. 'For the Benefit of Example': Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720-1830; Steve Poole3. The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England; Zoe Dyndor4. Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as seen through Eighteenth-Century French Executions; Pascal Bastien5. The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilizing the Early Modern Suicide Corpse; Alexander Ka;stner and Evelyne Luef6. Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire; Clare Anderson7. Strangled by the Chinese and Kept 'Alive' by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism; Song-Chuan Chen8. Dismembering and Remembering the Body: Execution and Post-Execution Display in Africa, c.1870-2000; Stacey Hynd9. Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals; Caroline Sharples.
650 0 $aExecutions and executioners$xHistory.
650 0 $aCriminals$xDeath$xHistory.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / World.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aWard, Richard,$d1984-