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Author Hume, Janice

Title Obituaries in American culture / Janice Hume
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents A Record for Public Memory -- The Egalitarian Life -- Death in the Civil War Era -- A New Century -- The Forgotten Dead -- "In the Midst of Life."
Summary This book surveys more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930 to show what they reveal about American culture. In memoralizing individual citizens, these obits from the 19th and early 20th centuries make a public expression of our values
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-190) and index
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Subject Obituaries -- United States -- History
Death -- Social aspects -- United States
Memory -- Social aspects -- United States
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
Civilization
Death -- Social aspects
Memory -- Social aspects
Obituaries
Kultur
Nachruf
Tod
Erinnerung
Necrologieën.
Collectief geheugen.
Culturele aspecten.
United States -- Civilization -- 19th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
United States -- Civilization -- Sources
United States -- Civilization -- Sources
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99052868
ISBN 9781621035862
1621035867