Routledge History of Death Since 1800
By: edited by Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: eBook (PDF)
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9780429643019
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: World history; History, modern; Social history
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: General Patterns and Connections; label: 1
title: Patterns Of Death, 1800-2020: Global Rates And Causes; title: Romola Davenport; label: 2
title: Mass Death During Modern Epidemics: Horrors and Their Consequences; title: Samuel Cohn; label: 3
title: Violent Death; title: Philip Dwyer; label: 4
title: Suicidology on the Cusp of Modernity: Sociology and Psychiatry in the 19th Century; title: David Lederer; label: 5
title: Death-Seeking Turns Political:  A Historical Template For Terrorism; title: Anna Geifman; label: 6
title: Toward a World Without the Death Penalty; title: Jon Yorke and Alice Storey; label: 7
title: The Cemetery; title: Erin-Marie Legacey; label: 8
title: Death, Commemoration, and the Era Of Total War In Europe; title: Jesse Kauffman; label: 9
title: The Transformation of Death Discourse: From ‘Taboo’ to ‘Revival’ at the Threshold of the New Millennium; title: Michael Hviid Jacobsen; label: Part 2
title: Regional Patterns; label: 10
title: “Why may not man be one day immortal?”: Rethinking Death in the Age of Enlightenment; title: Joseph Clarke; label: 11
title: "Now for the Grand Secret:" A History of the Post-Mortem Identity and Heavenly Reunions, 1800-2000; title: John C. Weaver and Doug Munro; label: 12
title: Death in Modern North American History; title: Peter N. Stearns; label: 13
title: Death In Mexico: Image And Reality; title: Stanley Brandes; label: 14
title: Death in Modern Japan (1800—2020); title: Timothy Benedict; label: 15
title: Picturing the Dead in Early Twentieth-Century China: Bodies, Burial, and the Photography of the Chinese Red Cross Burial Corps; title: Caroline Reeves; label: 16
title: Remaking the Hindu Pyre: Cremation in India since the 1830s; title: David Arnold; label: 17
title: Muslim Beliefs About Death; From Classical Formulations To Modern Applications; title: Abdulaziz Sachedina; label: 18
title: Death in Africa: A History c.1800 to Present Day; title: Rebekah Lee and Megan Vaughan; label: 19
title: Rituals Of Death In The Caribbean Diaspora, 1970-: The Immigrant Dilemmas; title: Garrey Michael Dennie; label: Part 3
title: Special Topics; label: 20
title: Premature Burial and the Mysteries of Death; title: Joanna Bourke; label: 21
title: Murdering Mothers and Dutiful Daughters: Infanticide in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico; title: Nora E. Jaffary; label: 22
title: ‘I wish we could have saved him for you’: Australia’s experience of death and bereavement in war, 1914-1918; title: Jen Roberts; label: 23
title: Soviet Cemeteries; title: Svetlana Malysheva; label: 24
title: Death in Modern Film; title: Thomas Britt; label: 25
title: Of Presidential Mausoleums and Politics in Neo-Liberal Zambia, 2008 to 2018; title: Walima T. Kalusa and Kelvin Chanda; label: 26
title: Celebrating Creation and Commemorating Life: Ritualizing Pet Death in the U.S. and Japan; title: Barbara R. Ambros; label: 27
title: Hospice: A Way to Die; title: Lucy Bregman; label: 28
title: “A Profound Shift In Policy”: The History Of Assisted Suicide; title: Ian Dowbiggin; label: 29
title: Conclusion: Future Trajectories of Death: Speculations and Raising Questions; title: Cortney Hughes Rinker