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Death and dying in the working class, 1865-1920
Author
Title
Death and dying in the working class, 1865-1920 [electronic resource] / Michael K. Rosenow.
ISBN
9780252097119
0252097114
9780252039133
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xxi, 223 pages) :) : illustrations, map.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
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 form distinct cultures of death for working people? And how did people's attitudes toward death reflect notions of who mattered in U.S. society? Drawing from an eclectic array of sources ranging from Andrew Carnegie to grave markers in Chicago's potter's field, Rosenow portrays the complex political, social, and cultural relationships that fueled the United States' industrial ascent. The result is an undertaking that adds emotional depth to existing history while challenging our understanding of modes of cultural transmission.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 History.
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Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2017
Series
Working class in American history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-217) and index.
Contents
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.
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