Author: William Willis
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Inscriptions on Tablets in Eastern Cemetery Mostly Previous to 1800
Author: William Willis
Publisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
1800-1834, with supplementary extracts, 1835-1842
Author: Liverpool (England)
Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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The American Resting Place
Author: Marilyn Yalom
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547345437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547345437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Author: Piotr Bienkowski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812221152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812221152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.
Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences
Author: New York Academy of Sciences
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Curious Epitaphs
Author: William Andrews
Publisher: Hadley Press
ISBN: 1408680173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Hadley Press
ISBN: 1408680173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Happy Valley
Author: Ken Nicolson
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888028103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Hong Kong's oldest Western cemetery garden is located in Happy Valley. This history and tour highlights the need for urgent action to conserve the built and natural heritage resources of this important cultural landscape. The author challenges the reader to reconsider the basic approach to heritage conservation adopted in Hong Kong where a false dichotomy persists between natural and built heritage conservation initiatives. The Hong Kong Cemetery provides an excellent example of a precious cultural landscape which is deteriorating because simplistic approaches to site management have failed to understand and protect the complex interrelationship between the natural (flora mid fauna - habitats) and built (monuments and Memorials) heritage resources. The first-three chapters introduce the cemetery garden concept as it evolved in early nineteenth century Europe, and was eventually established in Hong Kong by the British.-The second half of the book provides a self-guided tour of the cemetery highlighting its resources as well as explaining the main conservation problems and possible solutions to protect the cemetery.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888028103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Hong Kong's oldest Western cemetery garden is located in Happy Valley. This history and tour highlights the need for urgent action to conserve the built and natural heritage resources of this important cultural landscape. The author challenges the reader to reconsider the basic approach to heritage conservation adopted in Hong Kong where a false dichotomy persists between natural and built heritage conservation initiatives. The Hong Kong Cemetery provides an excellent example of a precious cultural landscape which is deteriorating because simplistic approaches to site management have failed to understand and protect the complex interrelationship between the natural (flora mid fauna - habitats) and built (monuments and Memorials) heritage resources. The first-three chapters introduce the cemetery garden concept as it evolved in early nineteenth century Europe, and was eventually established in Hong Kong by the British.-The second half of the book provides a self-guided tour of the cemetery highlighting its resources as well as explaining the main conservation problems and possible solutions to protect the cemetery.
Petrography
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Petrology
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petrology
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Macmillan Dictionary of Archaeology
Author: Ruth Whitehouse
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349048747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349048747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description