A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

Foreword / Pieter Spierenburg --
Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse / Richard Ward --
1. Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / James Kelly --
2. 'For the Benefit of Example': Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720-1830 / Steve Poole --
3. The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England / Zoe Dyndor --
4. Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as seen through Eighteenth-Century French Executions / Pascal Bastien --
5. The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilising the Early Modern Suicide Corpse / Alexander Kästner and Evelyne Luef --
6. Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire / Clare Anderson --
7. Strangled by the Chinese and Kept 'Alive' by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism / Song-Chuan Chen --
8. Dismembering and Remembering the Body: Execution and Post-Execution Display in Africa, c.1870-2000 / Stacey Hynd --
9. Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals / Caroline Sharples.