Rest in peace :a cultural history of death and the funeral home in twentieth-century America /Gary Laderman.

Name/Title

Rest in peace :a cultural history of death and the funeral home in twentieth-century America /Gary Laderman.

Description

Acknowledgements --Prologue --Introduction : 1963 --1.From house calls to funeral homes : changing relations between the living and the dead --2.Explaining the American funeral, 1918-1963 --3.Good grief! Jessica Mitford makes The New York times bestseller list --4.Keeping the dead in place : old and new patterns of consumption --5.Final frontiers : into the twenty-first century --Epilogue : 9/11 --Notes --Index. xlii, 245 p. :ill. ;25 cm.

Book Details

Author

Laderman, Gary

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

2003

Publication Subjects

Undertakers and undertaking--United States. Funeral supplies industry--United States.

Call No.

HD999 .U53 U543 2003

ISBN

019513608X

LCCN

2002006682

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-236) and index.