Download or read book The Italian Guillotine written by Stanton H. Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ten-Year Diary of a Chaplain working in Bellavista, Pavon, and Men's Central Jail - prisons in Colombia, Guatemala and Los Angeles respectively. It also includes more than 50 pages of photos of the author's art.
Download or read book The Italian Guillotine written by Stanton H. Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ten-Year Diary of a Chaplain working in Bellavista, Pavon, and Men's Central Jail - prisons in Colombia, Guatemala and Los Angeles respectively. It also includes more than 50 pages of photos of the author's art.
Download or read book Guillotine written by Robert Frederick Opie and published by The History Press. This book was released on 1997-03-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guillotine is a most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was 'redesigned'. Tracing the development of the guillotine, this book recounts the stories of famous executions, the lives of the executioners, and the research into whether the head retained consciousness after it was separated from the body.
Download or read book When the Guillotine Fell written by Jeremy Mercer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long did the guillotine's blade hang over the heads of French criminals? Was it abandoned in the late 1800s? Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality? No. The blade was allowed to do its work well into our own time. In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi brutally tortured 22 year-old Elisabeth Bousquet in an apartment in Marseille, putting cigarettes out on her body and lighting her on fire, finally strangling her to death in the Provencal countryside where he left her body to rot. In 1977, he became the last person executed by guillotine in France in a multifaceted case as mesmerizing for its senseless violence as it is though-provoking for its depiction of a France both in love with and afraid of The Foreigner. In a thrilling and enlightening account of a horrendous murder paired with the history of the guillotine and the history of capital punishment, Jeremy Mercer, a writer well known for his view of the underbelly of French life, considers the case of Hamida Djandoubi in the vast flow of blood that France's guillotine has produced. In his hands, France never looked so bloody...
Download or read book When the Guillotine Fell written by Jeremy Mercer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long did the guillotine’s blade hang over the heads of French criminals? Was it abandoned in the late 1800s? Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality? No. The blade was allowed to do its work well into our own time. In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi brutally tortured 22 year-old Elisabeth Bousquet in an apartment in Marseille, putting cigarettes out on her body and lighting her on fire, finally strangling her to death in the Provencal countryside where he left her body to rot. In 1977, he became the last person executed by guillotine in France in a multifaceted case as mesmerizing for its senseless violence as it is though-provoking for its depiction of a France both in love with and afraid of The Foreigner. In a thrilling and enlightening account of a horrendous murder paired with the history of the guillotine and the history of capital punishment, Jeremy Mercer, a writer well known for his view of the underbelly of French life, considers the case of Hamida Djandoubi in the vast flow of blood that France's guillotine has produced. In his hands, France never looked so bloody...
Download or read book The Guillotine written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Guillotine written by John Wilson Croker and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hiding the Guillotine written by Emmanuel Taïeb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move executions from the bloody and public stage of the guillotine to behind prison doors? In a fascinating exploration of a grim subject, Emmanuel Taïeb exposes the rituals and theatrical form of the death penalty and tells us who watched, who participated in, and who criticized (and ultimately brought an end to) a spectacle that the state called "punishment." France's abolition of the death penalty in 1981 has long overshadowed its suppression of public executions over forty years earlier. Since the Revolution, executions attracted tens of thousands of curious onlookers. But, gradually, there was a shift in attitude and the public no longer saw this as a civilized pastime. Why? Combining material from legal archives, police files, an executioner's notebooks, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to 566 executions, Hiding the Guillotine answers this question. Taïeb demonstrates the ways in which the media was at the vanguard of putting an end to the publicity surrounding the death penalty. The press had ample reason to be critical: cities were increasingly being used for leisure activity and prisons for those accused of criminal activity. The agitation surrounding each execution, coupled with a growing identification with the condemned, would blur these boundaries. Ranked among the top hundred history books by the website, Café du Web Historizo, Hiding the Guillotine has much to impart to students of legal history, human rights, and criminology, as well as to American historians.
Download or read book The French Revolution The guillotine written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guillotine and the Terror written by Daniel Arasse and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the French.
Download or read book The Terror written by Graeme Fife and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From late 1792 to the summer of 1794, the young French Republic was subject to a reign of institionalised terror - in many ways the prcursor of Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s. The Republic founded on liberty, equality and fraternity degenerated into a nightmare of paralysing fear nad panic, of suspicion and betrayal. Personified by Robespierre and Saint-Just, the Terror convulsed and very nearly ruined France - until they too met their fate under Dr Guillotin's new invention. That extraordinary, blood thirsty period comes vividly to life in this book; by mining the original French sources - contemporary documents, eye-witness accounts, reports from the dreaded Committee for public safety. The author brilliantly recreates the deadly, paranoid atmosphere of the time. He shows that the Terror was not just confined to Paris - the Terror cut a swathe across France. In Nantes, thousands of prisoners were dragged from their cells and drowned in the Loire. In Lyon, hundreds of rebels were mown down into mass graves by grapeshot. And yet amidst the horror there are also stories of great dignity and heroism, audacious escapes, and the pathos of heart-wrenching last letters written by men and women prisoners in the grim Conciergerie, awaiting the final ride in the tumbrels through the streets of Paris to the guillotine"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Guillotine written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution written by Timothy Tackett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution’s lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? “By attending to the role of emotions in propelling the Terror, Tackett steers a more nuanced course than many previous historians have managed...Imagined terrors, as...Tackett very usefully reminds us, can have even more political potency than real ones.” —David A. Bell, The Atlantic “[Tackett] analyzes the mentalité of those who became ‘terrorists’ in 18th-century France...In emphasizing weakness and uncertainty instead of fanatical strength as the driving force behind the Terror...Tackett...contributes to an important realignment in the study of French history.” —Ruth Scurr, The Spectator “[A] boldly conceived and important book...This is a thought-provoking book that makes a major contribution to our understanding of terror and political intolerance, and also to the history of emotions more generally. It helps expose the complexity of a revolution that cannot be adequately understood in terms of principles alone.” —Alan Forrest, Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book The H bertistes to the Guillotine written by Morris Slavin and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how an urban, working-class group were judged ultrarevolutionary and executed.
Download or read book The Guillotine a Story of the French Revolution written by M. J. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ramage the Guillotine written by Dudley Pope and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed—not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught. In a brilliant yet daring spy scheme to protect Britain's shores, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French High Command—and the penalty for failure is the guillotine.
Download or read book Guillotine Its Legend and Lore written by Daniel Charles Gerould and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the guillotine as a cultural artifact, examining its representation in the arts, both high and low, over the course of two centuries.
