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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

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  1. Richard Ward

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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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.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Ward
    Pages 1-36Open Access

  3. Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

    • James Kelly
    Pages 37-70

  4. ‘For the Benefit of Example’: Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720–1830

    • Steve Poole
    Pages 71-101

  5. The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

    • Zoe Dyndor
    Pages 102-125Open Access

  6. Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as Seen Through Eighteenth-Century French Executions

    • Pascal Bastien
    Pages 126-146

  7. The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilising the Early Modern Suicide Corpse

    • Alexander Kästner, Evelyne Luef
    Pages 147-169

  8. Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 170-198

  9. Strangled by the Chinese and Kept ‘Alive’ by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism

    • Song-Chuan Chen
    Pages 199-219

  10. Dismembering and Remembering the Body: Execution and Post-Execution Display in Africa, c. 1870–2000

    • Stacey Hynd
    Pages 220-248

  11. Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals

    • Caroline Sharples
    Pages 249-271

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 272-313
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“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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  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Richard Ward

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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

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