Title Australian ways of death : a social and cultural history, 1840-1918 / Pat Jalland

Published Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2002] ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Series ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents pt. I. Immigrant Deaths at Sea: The Transition from the Old World to the New. Ch. 1. The terror of 'a watery grave': The deaths of infants and children, at sea, 1838-90. Ch. 2. Faith, fever, and consumption: Disease and adult deaths at sea -- pt. II. The Good Christian Death: Transmission from Europe to Australia. Ch. 3. The transmission of the European culture of the good Christian death. Ch. 4. 'Angels in heaven': The common tragedies of babies' and children's deaths. Ch. 5. Medical and secular challenges to Christian ideals of death. Ch. 6. Funerals and undertakers. Ch. 7. Women, widowhood, and gendered mourning. Ch. 8. Christian mourning ritual and heavenly consolations. Ch. 9. Memory and mourning: Secular and material commemoration. Ch. 10. Dr. Springthorpe's memorialisation of his wife: Melbourne's Taj Mahal -- pt. III. Death and Destitution. Ch. 11. Sick and dying old people in 'benevolent' asylums. Ch. 12. An asylum system 'degrading to the most inhuman race of savages': Revelations and reform in New South Wales -- pt. IV. Death in the Bush and the Great War. Ch. 13. Death and burial in the bush: A distinctive Australian culture of death. Ch. 14. Male deaths in the bush: Frontier violence, old age, suicide, and accidents. Ch. 15. Frontier struggles for survival: Stoical women and lost children. Ch. 16. Epilogue: The Great War and silent grief Summary "Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840-1918 describes how Australians in the past came to terms with death within the constraints and cultural perspectives of their own times. This book is the result of intensive research into where and how people have died in Australia, how they have been buried, mourned, and commemorated, and how social and regional factors have influenced mortality rates and people's consciousness of death and loss."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-370) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In ACLS Humanities E-Book. Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia -- History -- 19th century Mourning customs -- Australia -- History -- 19th century Death -- Social aspects -- Australia Death -- Psychological aspects. Funeral Rites -- history Attitude to Death SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement. Death -- Psychological aspects Death -- Social aspects Funeral rites and ceremonies Manners and customs Mourning customs Tod Brauch Dood. Geschichte 1840-1918. Sozialgeschichte 1840-1918. Totenkult SUBJECT Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Australia Subject Australia Australien Australien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002281994 ISBN 1429400366 9781429400367

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