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Lang Matl
Author Yalom, Marilyn

Title The American resting place : four hundred years of history through our cemeteries and burial grounds / Marilyn Yalom ; photographs by Reid Yalom

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  E159 .Y35 2008    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  E159    Available
Description xv, 336 p., [64] of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary Traces the history of America through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, in an illustrated study that follows the historic pattern of American immigration to reveal changing ideas about death, gender, and class
Subject Cemeteries -- United States
Cemeteries -- United States -- Pictorial works
Sepulchral monuments -- United States
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States
United States -- History, Local
United States -- History, Local -- Pictorial works
United States -- Social life and customs
Added Title Four hundred years of history through our cemeteries and burial grounds
ISBN 9780618624270
0618624279
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