Purified by fire : a history of cremation in America / Stephen Prothero.
2001
GT3330 .P76 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
Purified by fire : a history of cremation in America / Stephen Prothero.
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ISBN
0520208161 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 266 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
GT3330 .P76 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
393/.2
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261) and index.
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Table of Contents
The cremation of Baron De Palm
Sanitary reform
Resurrection and the resurrectionists
The business of cremation
The memorial idea
Consumers' last rites
Contemporary ways of cremation.
Sanitary reform
Resurrection and the resurrectionists
The business of cremation
The memorial idea
Consumers' last rites
Contemporary ways of cremation.