Chapter 3 The Gibbet in the Landscape : Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

Ward, Richard

Chapter 3 The Gibbet in the Landscape : Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England - Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015 - 1 electronic resource (313 p.)

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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. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.


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9781137444011 9781137443991

10.1057/9781137444011 doi


General & world history
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Social & cultural history
Criminal or forensic psychology
International criminal law
Criminal law & procedure

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