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Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920 /

Michael K. Rosenow investigates working people's beliefs, rituals of dying, and the politics of death by honing in on three overarching questions: How did workers, their families, and their communities experience death? Did various identities of class, race, gender, and religion coalesce to for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenow, Michael K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Working class in American history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : in search of John Henry's body
  • The marks of capital : the accident crisis and cultures of industrialization, 1865-1919
  • The power of the dead's place : Chicago's cemeteries, social conflict, and cultural construction, 1873-1913
  • Every new grave brought a thousand members : the politics of death in Illinois coal communities, 1883-1910
  • As close to hell as they hoped to get : steel, death, and community in western Pennsylvania, 1892-1919
  • Conclusion : (un)freedom of the grave.