Robert V. Wells

Facing the 'King of Terrors'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the roles and perceptions of death in Schenectady, New York from 1750 to 1990.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780521633192
• ISBN-10: 0521633192
• Artikelnr.: 21984412

Inhaltsangabe

1. Meeting the 'King of Terrors'; 2. Death in the colonial village; 3. Thy death: 1800
50; 4. To speak of death: culture and the individual; 5. The era of the Civil War 1850
70; 6. 'But the weaver knows the threads': perspectives on the Civil War; 7. Great transitions: 1870
1950; 8. To speak of death: searching for a new vocabulary; 9. A vicarious intimacy with death: 1950 to the present; Appendix; Index.