Richard F Veit, Mark Nonestied

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones

History in the Landscape

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century onwards. This book shows how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. It explains what cemeteries and their gravemarkers say about different individuals and the communities in which they lived.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780813542362
• ISBN-10: 0813542367
• Artikelnr.: 23414611

Autorenporträt

Veit, Richard F

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Why Study Historic Burial Grounds?
2. Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers
3. New Jersey's Colonial Gravemarkers
4. From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries
5. Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments
6. New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument
Industry
7. New Immigrants, New Traditions
8. Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn't a
Gravestone
9. Mansions of Immortality: Mausoleums and Columbaria
10. Modern Marvels: The New Cemetery Aesthetic
11. New Jersey's Burial Grounds Past and Present
Appendix A: Burial Grounds Visited
Appendix B: Gravestone Carvers Active in New Jersey
Bibliography
Index