TY - BOOK ID - 48298871 TI - The History and Politics of Exhumation : Royal Bodies and Lesser Mortals PY - 2019 SN - 3030240479 3030240460 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Exhumation. KW - Disinterment KW - Autopsy KW - Burial KW - Civilization—History. KW - Social history. KW - Law—History. KW - Cultural History. KW - Social History. KW - Legal History. KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - History KW - Sociology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48298871 AB - This book argues that a serious, scholarly study on exhumation is long overdue. Examining more well-known cases, such as that of Richard III, the Romanovs, and Tutankhamen, alongside the more obscure, Michael Nash explores the motivations beyond exhumation, from retribution to repatriation. Along the way, he explores the influence of Gothic fiction in the eighteenth century, the notoriety of the Ressurection Men in the nineteenth century, and the archeological heyday of the twentieth century. ER -