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UNINA9910459075803321 |
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Autore |
Kammen Michael G |
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Titolo |
Digging up the dead [[electronic resource] ] : a history of notable American reburials / / Michael Kammen |
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Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
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1-282-58481-2 |
9786612584817 |
0-226-42332-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Exhumation - United States - History |
Exhumation - Political aspects - United States |
Burial - United States - History |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A short history of reburial: patterns of change over time -- Heroes of the Revolution: the siting and reciting of patriotism -- Honor, dishonor, and issues of reputation: from sectionalism to nationalism -- Problematic graves, tourism, and the wishes of survivors -- Disinterred by devotion: religion, race, and spiritual repose -- Repossessing the dead elsewhere in our time. |
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With Digging Up the Dead, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites of such figures as Sitting Bull, John Paul Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Boone, Jefferson Davis, and even Abraham Lincoln, Kammen explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures. Grave-robbing, skull-fondling, cases of mistaken identity, and the financial lures of cemetery tourism all come into play as Kammen delves deeply into this little- |
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known-yet surprisingly persistent-aspect of American history. Simultaneously insightful and interesting, masterly and macabre, Digging Up the Dead reminds us that the stories of American history don't always end when the key players pass on. Rather, the battle-over reputations, interpretations, and, last but far from least, possession of the remains themselves-is often just beginning. |
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UNINA9910779313703321 |
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Autore |
Sachs Aaron (Aaron Jacob) |
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Arcadian America : the death and life of an environmental tradition / / Aaron Sachs |
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New Haven ; ; London : , : Yale University Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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0-300-27664-8 |
0-300-18905-2 |
1-283-91531-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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New directions in narrative history |
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HIS054000HIS036040ARC008000SOC036000 |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Arcadia in art |
Arcadia in literature |
Cemeteries - Environmental aspects - United States |
Cemeteries - Social aspects - United States |
Cemeteries - United States - History - 19th century |
Environmental responsibility - United States |
Environmentalism - Social aspects - United States |
Human ecology - United States - History - 19th century |
American literature |
Cemeteries |
Environmental responsibility |
Environmentalism - Social aspects |
Human ecology |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
History |
United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Prologue : waterfalls and cemeteries -- Common shade : cultivating a place for death -- The middle landscapes of New England culture -- Sleepy Hollow : a young nation in repose -- Stumps -- Three men of the middle border (part one) : twilight -- Three men of the middle border (part two) : American homelessness -- Atlantis : Arcadia and Armageddon -- Epilogue : American Gothic; or death by landscape. |
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"Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir, Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis. Until the trauma of the Civil War, many Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an Arcadia--not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgment of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists, painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners, and holds up for comparison the twenty-first century's--and his own--tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits. His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American history."--Jacket. |
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