| Description |
vi, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Immigrant Deaths at Sea: The Transition from the Old World to the New. Ch. 1. The terror of 'a watery grave': The deaths of infants and children, at sea, 1838-90. Ch. 2. Faith, fever, and consumption: Disease and adult deaths at sea -- Pt. II. The Good Christian Death: Transmission from Europe to Australia. Ch. 3. The transmission of the European culture of the good Christian death. Ch. 4. 'Angels in heaven': The common tragedies of babies' and children's deaths. Ch. 5. Medical and secular challenges to Christian ideals of death. Ch. 6. Funerals and undertakers. Ch. 7. Women, widowhood, and gendered mourning. Ch. 8. Christian mourning ritual and heavenly consolations. Ch. 9. Memory and mourning: Secular and material commemoration. Ch. 10. Dr. Springthorpe's memorialisation of his wife: Melbourne's Taj Mahal -- Pt. III. Death and Destitution. Ch. 11. Sick and dying old people in 'benevolent' asylums. Ch. 12. An asylum system 'degrading to the most inhuman race of savages': Revelations and reform in New South Wales -- Pt. IV. Death in the Bush and the Great War. Ch. 13. Death and burial in the bush: A distinctive Australian culture of death. Ch. 14. Male deaths in the bush: Frontier violence, old age, suicide, and accidents. Ch. 15. Frontier struggles for survival: Stoical women and lost children. Ch. 16. Epilogue: The Great War and silent grief |
| Summary |
"Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840-1918 describes how Australians in the past came to terms with death within the constraints and cultural perspectives of their own times. This book is the result of intensive research into where and how people have died in Australia, how they have been buried, mourned, and commemorated, and how social and regional factors have influenced mortality rates and people's consciousness of death and loss."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-370) and index |
| Subject |
Mortality -- Australia.
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Bereavement -- Australia -- Psychological aspects.
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Mourning customs -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Death -- Australia -- Causes.
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Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
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Death -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1788-1900
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Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1901-1922
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Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Australia -- Social life and customs.
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| LC no. |
2002281994 |
| ISBN |
0195507541 |
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