Australian ways of death: a social and cultural history, 1840-1918
2003; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 40; Issue: 07 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.40-4159
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Australian History and Society
ResumoINTRODUCTION PART 1: IMMIGRANT DEATHS AT SEA: THE TRANSITION FROM THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW 1. The terror of 'a watery grave': the deaths of infants and children at sea, 1838-1890 2. Faith, fever and consumption: disease and adult deaths at sea PART 2: THE GOOD CHRISTIAN DEATH: TRANSMISSION FROM EUROPE TO AUSTRALIA 3. The Transmission of the European Culture of the Good Protestant Death 4. 'Angels in Heaven': the common tragedies of babies' and children's deaths 5. Medical and secular challenges to Christian ideals of death 6. Funerals and undertakers 7. Women, widowhood, and gendered mourning 8. Christian mourning ritual and heavenly consolations 9. Memory and mourning: secular and material commemoration 10. Dr Springthorpe's memorialisation of his wife: Melbourne's Taj Mahal PART 3: DEATH AND DESTITUTION 11. Sick and dying old people in benevolent asylums 12. An asylum system 'degrading to the most inhuman race of savages': revelations and reform in New South Wales PART 4: DEATH IN THE BUSH AND THE GREAT WAR 13. Death and burial in the bush: a distinctive Australian culture of death 14. Male deaths in the bush: frontier violence, old age, suicide, and accidents 15. Frontier struggles for survival: stoical women and lost children 16. Epilogue: the Great War and silent grief ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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