Just as Death in Hamburg (1987) taught us much about urbanization, municipal government, the history of medicine, public health, and the history of technology-thus transcending its apparent focus on a single cholera epidemic in a masterpiece of bricolage- Rituals of Retribution offers far more than a mere history of capital punishment in Germany.Įvans uses capital punishment to trace the transition of Germany from a society of estates to a class society and through all the upheavals and regime changes of the twentieth century. Evans for the second time brings to the scholarly community a big book that seemingly addresses an arcane and narrow subject but in reality throws a piercing light into many unlit corners of German history. Ledford (Department of History, Case Western Reserve University) Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987.
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