Committed to the Cleansing Flame
Subtitle: The Development of Cremation in Nineteenth-century England
Publisher: Peeters
Published: December 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781904965046
Subjects: Customs; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - General History; England; Environmental Science; Modern - 18th Century; Modern - 19th Century; 19th century; Cremation
Description: "This book is the first full-length study of how cremation developed into an acceptable and dignified way to dispose of the dead. It tells of the arrangements for early cremations and the progress of the movement down to the passing of the first Cremation Act in 1902 when London finally received its first crematorium. It is extensively illustrated including many rarely seen images."--BOOK JACKET.