ISBN:
9780252097119
,
0252097114
,
0252039130
,
9780252039133
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
Working class in American history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.90973
Keywords:
Death Social aspects
;
History
;
United States
;
Working class History
;
United States
;
United States
;
Death Social aspects
;
History
;
Working class History
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Civil Rights
;
Death ; Social aspects
;
Working class
;
Social Welfare & Social Work
;
Social Sciences
;
Gerontology
;
Family and Relationships
;
Sociology: death & dying
;
Politics & government
;
Industrial relations, health & safety
;
History of the Americas
;
United States of America, USA
;
History
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
;
Electronic books.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 31 2015)
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Permalink