The anatomy murders : being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare, and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes /
This text situates the story of Burke and Hare against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early 19th-century Britain into modernity. Each of the murder victims provides a window on a different aspect of this world in transition.
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Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2010
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Series: | EBL-Schweitzer
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |