By Gary Laderman
ISBN-10: 0300064322
ISBN-13: 9780300064322
ISBN-10: 0300078684
ISBN-13: 9780300078688
ISBN-10: 0585349533
ISBN-13: 9780585349534
This paintings explores the altering attitudes towards demise and the lifeless in northern Protestant groups through the nineteenth century. It bargains insights into the development of an "American means of death", illuminating the principal position of the Civil conflict and tracing the beginning of the funeral undefined.
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Were greatly appreciated, and the constructive, insightful comments of E. Brooks Holifield gave me a fresh perspective on the manuscript while I was putting it into its final form. The summer research support I received from the university was also helpful as I finished putting the final manuscript together. I would like to express my gratitude to the Graduate Division and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for research support. During the research for this project I encountered a number of generous and friendly people who made the task of searching through materials much easier.
22 Page 7 The struggle to account for death can also be linked with a wide range of high-profile, contentious, often extremely emotional issues in American society, including abortion, euthanasia, violence, suicide, genocide, and AIDS. The public debates surrounding these issues, as well as the popularity of newage visions of the afterlife, mourning manuals, techniques of grief therapy, and bereavement workshops, indicate that death is not a taboo topic, but rather a subject that is unavoidable in American culture.
In addition, changes in living and work patterns contributed to how people died. 9 In general, those who were strong enough to survive the various diseases and occasional epidemics that swept through their communities could expect to live into their late thirties. 10 Unfortunately many people did not even reach these ages the chances of dying during the early years of life were exceedingly high. "11 Another historian suggests that infant mortality might have been as Page 25 high as two hundred per thousand live births.
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