GUILLOTINE IN HISTORY
GUILLOTINE IN HISTORY
The Guillotine: Reflections on Violent Revolutionary Rupture. Book chapter: Caroline Humphrey pp. 27-51 (25 pages) In JSTOR
22 Infernal Machines in Nineteenth-Century France. Book chapter.. by RICHARD TAWS pp. 215-223 (9 pages) Book; Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman. In JSTOR
The Guillotine: Reflections on Violent Revolutionary Rupture. Book chapter by Caroline Humphrey. pp. 27-51 (25 pages) In JSTOR
Dance around the guillotine
French Guillotine Blade - Age of Revolution This object description and its related educational resources were researched
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The Bloody Family History of the Guillotine. From The Paris Review.. (April 6, 2018)
Guillotine. Introduced to France by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine, he was not the inventor of the machine only a lobbyist for it. Contains a history, revolutionary ties, timeline, and some fun facts. Written by a history professor Mr. R Schwartz at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
History 151 The French Revolution: Causes, Outcomes, Conflicting Interpretations A history course by Mr. Schwartz.
Why the guillotine may be less cruel than execution by slow poisoning. (Oct. 16, 2019) by Janine Lanza, The Conversation. A scientific point of view. The guillotine may be more humane than execution by lethal injection.
.Guillotin/Guillotine. By the University of Houston's College of Engineering. This is part of a series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. John H. Lienhard, founding author and voice of The Engines of Our Ingenuity, is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and History at the University of Houston. (1988-1989) A podcast.
History of the Guillotine.(1853) Open book. by John Wilson Croker. On Wikisource. Revised from the Quarterly Review of December 1844. Shakspeare,who penetrated every crevice of human feeling, makes the gravedigger in Hamlet open a grievance on which the French philosophers improved—' ..
Dance Around the Guillotine, 1901. Käthe Kollwitz, German, 1867–1945. Published by E. A. Seemann, German, founded 1858. Etching and aquatint. In the Princeton University Art Museum.