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.