Introduction: ways of dying, ways of living
Old worlds of death
First encounters
Burial and disinterment in the Chesapeake
Holy bones and beautiful deaths in New France
Grave missions: Christianizing death in New England
Across the waters: African American deathways
Crossing boundaries, keeping faith: Jewish deathways
Burial and condolence in the Seven Years' War
Conclusion: ways of living, ways of dying.