New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones : History in the Landscape /

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In this sweeping tour of New Jersey's 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 elabo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Veit, Richard F., 1968-
Otros Autores: Nonestied, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Grabmal.
Grab.
Friedhof.
Sepulchral monuments.
Landscapes.
Landscape architecture.
Historic sites.
Cemeteries.
Burial.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
Paysages > New Jersey > Histoire.
Sepulture > New Jersey > Histoire.
Architecture du paysage > New Jersey.
Lieux historiques > New Jersey.
Landscapes > New Jersey > History.
Burial > New Jersey > History.
Sepulchral monuments > New Jersey > History.
Cemeteries > New Jersey > History.
Landscape architecture > New Jersey.
Sepulchral monuments > New Jersey.
Historic sites > New Jersey.
Cemeteries > New Jersey.
New Jersey.
New Jersey > Histoire locale.
New Jersey > History, Local.
Local history.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why study historic cemeteries
  • Early American burial grounds and gravemarkers
  • New Jersey's colonial gravemarkers
  • From graveyards and burying grounds to cemeteries
  • Victorian valhallas : from markers to monuments
  • New technology, new tools : the professionalization of the industry
  • New immigrants, new traditions
  • Alternative gravemarking traditions, or, When a gravestone isn't a gravestone
  • Mansions of immortality : the evolution of New Jersey mausoleums
  • Modern marvels : the new cemetery aesthetic
  • New Jersey's burial grounds past and present
  • Appendix A : cemeteries visited
  • Appendix B : New Jersey's historic stone carvers.

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