Rituals of retribution : capital punishment in Germany, 1600-1987 / Richard J. Evans
1996, 1st edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426045
ISBN: 0198219687
Physical description; xxxii, 1014 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 939-991) and index. Contents; List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 1 Theatres of Cruelty (starting p. 27) -- a The Death Penalty in Early Modern Germany (starting p. 27) -- b Crime and the Law around 1600 (starting p. 35) -- c The Decline of Capital Punishment (starting p. 41) -- d Honour and Dishonour (starting p. 53) -- e The German Executioner (starting p. 56) -- 2 Rites of Blood (starting p. 65) -- a Pronouncing Sentence (starting p. 65) -- b The March to the Scaffold (starting p. 73) -- c The Scene at the Ravenstone (starting p. 77) -- d Languages of the Dismembered Body (starting p. 86) -- e Reversing the Signs (starting p. 99) -- 3 A Rational Degree of Pain (starting p. 109) -- a The Decline of Torture (starting p. 109) -- b Penal Reform in the Enlightenment (starting p. 121) -- c Beccaria and the Abolition of the Death Penalty (starting p. 127) -- d The Prussian General Law Code of 1794 (starting p. 133) -- e The Legacy of the Guillotine (starting p. 140) -- 4 Farewell Songs and Moral Speeches (starting p. 150) -- a Execution Verses 1680-1760 (starting p. 150) -- b Gender and the Representation of Punishment (starting p. 159) -- c The Silence of the Malefactor (starting p. 168) -- d The Ambiguities of Folk-Song (starting p. 173) -- e Popular Culture and Capital Punishment (starting p. 181) -- 5 The Wheel, the Sword, and the Axe (starting p. 193) -- a An Execution in Berlin (starting p. 193) -- b 'Coarseness and Immorality' (starting p. 202) -- c Cultural Change and the Reform of Executions 1800-1835 (starting p. 207) -- d Reducing the Variety of Punishments 1794-1839 (starting p. 213) -- e Paradoxes of Reform (starting p. 225) -- 6 From Reform to Revolution (starting p. 240) -- a Reforming the Criminal Law 1813-1848 (starting p. 240) -- b The Attack on the Death Penalty in the 1840s (starting p. 248) -- c Public Executions and Public Order (starting p. 257) -- d The Debate in the Frankfurt Parliament (starting p. 266) -- e Capital Punishment in the 1848 Revolution (starting p. 277) -- 7 Restoration and Change (starting p. 285) -- a The Condemned and the Reprieved (starting p. 285) -- b Structures of Mercy (starting p. 300) -- c The Abolition of Public Executions 1851-1863 (starting p. 305) -- d The Revival of Abolitionism in the 1860s (starting p. 321) -- e The Debates in the North German Reichstag 1870 (starting p. 329) -- 8 The People's Executioners (starting p. 351) -- a Capital Punishment and the Foundation of the German Empire (starting p. 351) -- b The Re-establishment of Capital Punishment in the 1880s (starting p. 361) -- c The Explosive Substances Law of 1884 (starting p. 368) -- d The Professionalization of the German Executioner (starting p. 372) -- e 'Licensed Pieceworkers' (starting p. 384) -- 9 The Culture of Embarrassment (starting p. 396) -- a The Issue of Entry Cards (starting p. 396) -- b The Printed Public Sphere 1880-1914 (starting p. 402) -- c The Search for Secrecy (starting p. 413) -- d The Growth of Squeamishness (starting p. 421) -- e New Justifications for the Death Penalty (starting p. 428) -- 10 The Revival of Abolitionism (starting p. 446) -- a Liberals, Pacifists, and Capital Punishment 1895-1912 (starting p. 446) -- b The Social Democrats and the Death Penalty (starting p. 455) -- c Reforming the Criminal Code 1906-1914 (starting p. 462) -- d The Sternickel Trial (starting p. 470) -- e Wilhelmine Apocalypse (starting p. 477) -- 11 A New Beginning? (starting p. 487) -- a Capital Punishment in the November Revolution (starting p. 487) -- b The Weimar National Assembly (starting p. 491) -- c The Social Democrats and the Death Penalty 1919-1927 (starting p. 499) -- d Capital Punishment and Party Politics (starting p. 507) -- e The Restoration of Normality (starting p. 518) -- 12 'The Death Penalty Practicality Abolished!' (starting p. 526) -- a Criminal Biology and Serial Murder (starting p. 526) -- b Executions and the Public Sphere 1922-1928 (starting p. 536) -- c The Crisis of the German Executioner (starting p. 542) -- d The Jakubowski Case 1923-1928 (starting p. 548) -- e The Suspension of Executions 1928-1929 (starting p. 561) -- 13 'Murderers Amongst Us' (starting p. 572) -- a The Failure of Criminal Law Reform 1929-1930 (starting p. 572) -- b The End of the Jakubowski Case 1928-1932 (starting p. 575) -- c An Execution in Wurttemberg (starting p. 587) -- d The 'Dusseldorf Vampire' (starting p. 591) -- e The Restoration of Capital Punishment 1931-1932 (starting p. 605) -- 14 'Healthy Popular Feeling (starting p. 613) -- a Uncertainty on Death Row 1932-1933 (starting p. 613) -- b The Reichstag Fire and the Lex van der Lubbe (starting p. 618) -- c National Socialism and Capital Punishment (starting p. 624) -- d Legal Reform and the Death Penalty 1933-1939 (starting p. 631) -- e The Expansion of Capital Punishment 1933-1939 (starting p. 641) -- 15 The Third Reich and its Executioners (starting p. 651) -- a Changing the method of Execution 1933-1936 (starting p. 651) -- b Capital Punishment and the Divided Public Sphere (starting p. 659) -- c The Volunteer Executioners (starting p. 665) -- d Apogee of a Profession (starting p. 669) -- e 'Antisocial Elements' (starting p. 681) -- 16 From Execution to Extermination (starting p. 689) -- a Capital Punishment and the Judiciary 1939-1942 (starting p. 689) -- b 'Cleansing the Raical Body' (starting p. 696) -- c Towards Assembly-Line Execution (starting p. 710) -- d Executioners in Wartime (starting p. 720) -- e Capital Punishment and Racial Extermination 1939-1945 (starting p. 726) -- 17 Legacies of Terror (starting p. 741) -- a Capital Punishment and the Occupying Powers 1945-1951 (starting p. 741) -- b German Justice and the Restoration of the Death Penalty (starting p. 756) -- c The End of the Death Penalty in the West (starting p. 775) -- d The Campaign to Reintroduce Capital Punishment (starting p. 789) -- e Article 102 and the Legacy of the Third Reich (starting p. 797) -- 18 'In the Interests of Humanity' (starting p. 805) -- a Capital Punishment in the Soviet Zone 1945-1950 (starting p. 805) -- b The Stalinization of East German Justice 1949-1953 (starting p. 815) -- c Espionage, Sabotage, 'Diversion': The Aftermath of 17 June (starting p. 834) -- d Destalinization and its Limits 1956-1961 (starting p. 846) -- e The End of the Death Penalty in the East (starting p. 855) -- Conclusion (starting p. 873) -- Statistical Appendix (starting p. 913) -- Bibliography (starting p. 939) -- Index (starting p. 993). Subjects; Capital punishment Germany History. Capital Punishment history. History. Germany. Capital punishment.
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