Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse (Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife) by Emma Battell Lowman, Sarah Tarlow

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse (Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife)

Emma Battell Lowman, Sarah Tarlow

273 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced

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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 cr...

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