A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Chapter 3 ‘For the Benefit of Example’: Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720–1830

Chapter 4 The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

Chapter 5 Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as Seen Through Eighteenth-Century French Executions

Chapter 6 The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilising the Early Modern Suicide Corpse

Chapter 7 Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Chapter 8 Strangled by the Chinese and Kept ‘Alive’ by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism

Chapter 10 Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals