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New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones : History in the Landscape.
In this sweeping tour of New Jerseys burial sites from the seventeenth century through the dawn of the twenty-first, readers will discover how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. From the earliest memorials that were once used by Native Americans, to some of the elaborate s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Rivergate Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Why Study Historic Burial Grounds?; Chapter 2: Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers; Chapter 3: New Jersey's Colonial Gravemarkers; Chapter 4: From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries; Chapter 5: Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments; Chapter 6: New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument Industry; Chapter 7: New Immigrants, New Traditions; Chapter 8: Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn't a Gravestone.