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Hardback. New. 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.
A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse Hard cover - 2015
by Richard Ward
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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.
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- Title A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
- Author Richard Ward
- Binding Hard Cover
- Condition New
- Pages 313
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
- Date 2015-10-04
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781137443991_pod
- ISBN 9781137443991 / 1137443995
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 1 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 2.54 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress subjects Executions and executioners - History, Capital punishment - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015001320
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.66
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