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Titre(s) : A global history of execution and the criminal corpse [Texte imprimé] / edited by Richard Ward, University of Sheffield, UK

Publication : Houndmills ; Basingstoke ; Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, impr. 2015

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-313 p.) ; 22 cm

Comprend : Foreword /Pieter Spierenburg ; Introduction: 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 Utilising the Early Modern Suicide Corpse /Alexander Kästner 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

Note(s) : La page de couv. porte la mention :"Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"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"

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ward, Richard (1984-....). Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Exécutions capitales et exécuteurs -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Peine de mort -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-137-44399-1 (hbk) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1137443995 (hbk) (alk. paper)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45029624d

Notice n° :  FRBNF45029624 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)