This fascinating book explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the nineteenth century. Gary Laderman offers insights into the construction of an "American way of death", illuminating the central role of the Civil War and tracing the birth of the funeral industry in the decades following the war.
- ISBN10 0300064322
- ISBN13 9780300064322
- Publish Date 27 November 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 238
- Language English