Death in the New World
Subtitle: cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800
By: Erik R. Seeman.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780812242294
Subjects: Death -- America -- History; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- America -- History; Mourning customs -- America -- History; Cross-cultural studies -- America; America -- History -- To 1810
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Old worlds of death; title: First encounters; title: Burial and disinterment in the Chesapeake; title: Holy bones and beautiful deaths in New France; title: Grave missions: Christianizing death in New England; title: Across the waters: African American deathways; title: Crossing boundaries, keeping faith: Jewish deathways; title: Burial and condolence in the Seven Years' War; title: Conclusion: ways of living, ways of dying.