Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of me...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2018
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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