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Creating the North American Landscape Ser.: Last Great Necessity : Cemeteries in American History by David C. Sloane (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-100801851289

ISBN-139780801851285

eBay Product ID (ePID)312176

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLast Great Necessity : Cemeteries in American History

Publication Year1995

SubjectLandscape, General, United States / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArchitecture, History

AuthorDavid C. Sloane

SeriesCreating the North American Landscape Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width7.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Four generations of David Charles Sloane's family have designed, landscaped, and managed cemeteries, so when he tells that story in The Last Great Necessity he does so with a professional's equanimity and expertise. In his exploration of the evolving design, economics, and social role of the American cemetery, Sloane handily demonstrates the cemetery's vital connection to popular culture, one he believes to be at least as strong as its more obvious tie to religious custom."-- Voice Literary Supplement, "An important contribution to an understanding of how Americans perceived death and to the growing commercialization of burial practices and customs. The more than fifty illustrations and tables provide dramatic evidence of a changing cultural form."-- Historian, "The most comprehensive history of American cemeteries yet published... Sloane's most original contribution is his analysis of the management side of cemetery life, showing how economic changes and institutions affected religious and aesthetic ideals in the cemetery."-- Journal of American History

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal393/.1/0973

SynopsisThe Last Great Necessity is a quite wonderful, and often surprising, portrait of American popular culture in action. As David Charles Sloane traces the history of modern cemeteries he meets all the ambivalences and coping strategies Americans have used when they have been forced by nature to confront the meanings of their lives. - From Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Boston University.