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, GaryDate Published
2003Publication Subjects
Undertakers and undertaking--United States.
Funeral supplies industry--United States.Call No.
HD999 .U53 U543 2003ISBN
019513608XLCCN
2002006682Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-236) and index.