Description |
xix, 296 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
1. Not Selling -- 2. The American Way of Death -- 3. The Funeral Transaction -- 4. The Artifacts -- 5. The Story of Service -- 6. The Rationale -- 7. The Allied Industries -- 8. God's Little Million-Dollar Acre -- 9. Shroudland Revisited -- 10. Cremation -- 11. What the Public Wants -- 12. Fashions in Funerals -- 13. The Newest Profession -- 14. The Nosy Clergy -- 15. The Federal Trade Commission -- 16. A Global Village of the Dead -- 17. Funerals in England Then and Now -- 18. Press and Protest -- 19. Pay Now - Die Poorer -- 20. New Hope for the Dead |
Summary |
Here is the classic anatomy of America's funeral practices, revised, expanded, and brought up-to-date for a new generation. This revised edition contains completely new chapters on, among other things, prepayment ("Pay Now - Die Poorer") and the new multinational corporations ("A Global Village of the Dead"), as well as a jaundiced look at the failure of the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the laws that the original edition of this book helped bring about. And, of course, there's a total updating of the facts and figures that tell the tale |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes index |
Subject |
Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996. American Way of death
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Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996. American way of death
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Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996. The American Way of Death
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Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996. he American Way of Death
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Undertakers and undertaking -- United States.
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LC no. |
97049349 |
ISBN |
0679450378 |
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