A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

by Richard Ward (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137444011
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/27/2015
Series:	Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	313
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Foreword; Pieter Spierenburg
Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse; Richard Ward: This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license via palgraveconnect.com.
1. Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; James Kelly
2. 'For the Benefit of Example': Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720–1830; Steve Poole
3. The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England; Zoe Dyndor: This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license via palgraveconnect.com.
4. Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as seen through Eighteenth-Century French Executions; Pascal Bastien
5. The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilizing the Early Modern Suicide Corpse; Alexander Kästner and Evelyne Luef
6. Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire; Clare Anderson
7. Strangled by the Chinese and Kept 'Alive' by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism; Song-Chuan Chen
8. Dismembering and Remembering the Body: Execution and Post-Execution Display in Africa, c.1870–2000; Stacey Hynd
9. Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals; Caroline Sharples

Editorial Reviews

A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse is a fascinating set of essays that explore not only the socio-political contexts of the death penalty, but also the fate of the condemned after their deaths. … It will be of interest to scholars of the criminal law, punishment, state-society relations, and the cultural history of death and the body.” (Michael Meranze, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January, 2017)

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