UID:
almafu_9961426915402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (569 pages).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780429028274
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042902827X
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9780429639845
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0429639848
Serie:
Routledge Histories
Inhalt:
history; death
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of images -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1: General patterns and connections -- 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 -- PART II: Regional patterns -- 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 -- PART III: Special topics -- 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.
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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 -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367549862
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0367549867
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367137168
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 036713716X
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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History
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429028274
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