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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Main Author:	Tarlow, Sarah (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Subjects:	Great Britain-History. History. Crime-Sociological aspects. Historical sociology. Social history.
ISBN:	9783319779089
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