Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987
The book begins with an account of the system of 'traditional' capital punishments set out in German law, and the ritual practices and cultural readings associated with them in the early modern period. It examines how this system broke down under the impact of secularization and social change in the first half of the nineteenth century. The abolition of the death penalty became a classic liberal cause which triumphed, briefly, in 1848. Its definitive reinstatement by Bismarck in the 1880s coincided with the emergence of new, Social Darwinist attitudes towards criminality whose eventual triumph laid the foundations for the massive expansion of…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-821968-2
- EAN: 9780198219682
- Produktnummer: 22686351
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 1048 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.6 cm x D5.8 cm 1'705 g
- Gewicht: 1705
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