The Routledge History of Death since 1800; First Edition by Peter N. Stearns

Author:Peter N. Stearns
Format: pdf
Tags: Introduction; 1 Patterns of death, 1800–2020: global rates and causes; 2 Mass death during modern epidemics: horrors and their consequences; 3 Violent death; 4 Suicidology on the cusp of modernity: sociology and psychiatry in the nineteenth century; 5 Death-seeking turns political: a historical template for terrorism; 6 Toward a world without the death penalty; 7 The cemetery; 8 Death, commemoration, and the era of total war in Europe; 9 The transformation of death discourse: from ‘taboo’ to ‘revival’ at the threshold of the new millennium; 10 ‘Why may not man be one day immortal?’: rethinking death in the age of enlightenment; 11 “Now for the grand secret”: a history of the post-mortem identity and Heavenly reunions, 1800–2000; 12 Death in modern North American history; 13 Death in Mexico: image and reality; 14 Death in modern Japan (1800–2020); 15 Picturing the dead in early twentieth-century China: bodies, burial, and the photography of the Chinese Red Cross Burial Corps; 16 Remaking the Hindu pyre: cremation in India since the 1830s; 17 Muslim beliefs about death: from classical formulations to modern applications; 18 Death in Africa: a history c.1800 to present day; 19 Rituals of death in the Caribbean diaspora, 1970–: the immigrant dilemmas; 20 Premature burial and the mysteries of death; 21 Murdering mothers and dutiful daughters: infanticide in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Mexico; 22 “I wish we could have saved him for you”: Australia’s experience of death and bereavement in war, 1914–1918; 23 Soviet cemeteries; 24 Death in modern film; 25 Of presidential mausoleums and politics in neo-liberal Zambia, 2008 to 2018; 26 Celebrating creation and commemorating life: ritualizing pet death in the U.S. and Japan; 27 Hospice: a way to die; 28 “A profound shift in policy”: the history of assisted suicide; 29 Future trajectories of death: issues and possibilities
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00


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