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Death in the New World : cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seeman, Erik R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Death > America > History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > America > History.
Mourning customs > America > History.
Cross-cultural studies > America.
America > History > To 1810.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.