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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how …
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- 978-1-137-58328-4
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Executing Magic in the Modern Era
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lace…
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- 978-3-319-59519-1
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crim…
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- 978-1-137-58249-2
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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- XXX, 326
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once li…
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- 978-1-137-53828-4
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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- VII, 103
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and then explores the ways in which Act was actually…
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- 978-1-137-51361-8
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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- XV, 212
Sociology in Germany
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in…
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- 978-3-030-71866-4
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- Sociology Transformed
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- XI, 222
Making Humanitarian Crises
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the inte…
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- 978-3-031-00824-5
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XII, 186
East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentiet…
This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be coloni…
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- 978-3-031-17487-2
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- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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- XII, 265
Making Humanitarian Crises
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the inte…
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XII, 186
Innovation in Bayern
Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit der Einstellung der bayerischen Militärführung in Hinblick auf die Rezeption als auch Adaption technischer Innovation bzw. deren ersten praktischen Anwendung im Krieg von 1866. Das 19. Jahrhundert stellte das bayerische Königreich vor mehrere Herausforderungen. Die militärische Partizipation an den Napoleonischen Kriegen endete zwar erfolgreich…
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- 978-3-658-39561-2
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- VI, 311
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