Revolutions in sorrow : the American experience of death in global perspective /
Stearns, Peter N.
Revolutions in sorrow : the American experience of death in global perspective / by Peter N. Stearns. - Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2007. - xii, 201 p. ; 23 cm. - U.S. history in international perspective .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Why death? Why the United States? -- Traditional patterns of death -- New emotions and rituals in death : the United States and western society -- The administration of death in the nineteenth century -- The death revolution in western society and its global implications -- Death as taboo : the U.S. case -- The comparative context : global patterns of change -- From personal death to social policies -- Abortion disputes and contemporary death culture -- The death penalty and its enemies : new global divisions -- Contemporary war and contemporary death -- Conclusion.
9781594514548 (alk. paper)
2007015264
Death--Social aspects.
Death--Social aspects--United States.
Death--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Social change.
HQ1073 / .S74 2007
306.90973
Revolutions in sorrow : the American experience of death in global perspective / by Peter N. Stearns. - Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2007. - xii, 201 p. ; 23 cm. - U.S. history in international perspective .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Why death? Why the United States? -- Traditional patterns of death -- New emotions and rituals in death : the United States and western society -- The administration of death in the nineteenth century -- The death revolution in western society and its global implications -- Death as taboo : the U.S. case -- The comparative context : global patterns of change -- From personal death to social policies -- Abortion disputes and contemporary death culture -- The death penalty and its enemies : new global divisions -- Contemporary war and contemporary death -- Conclusion.
9781594514548 (alk. paper)
2007015264
Death--Social aspects.
Death--Social aspects--United States.
Death--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Social change.
HQ1073 / .S74 2007
306.90973