Death in the New World : : Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-18 / / Erik R. Seeman.
Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Caribbean sugar cane fields to the unfamiliar diseases that afflicted Europeans in the Chesapeake and West Indies. According to historian Erik R. Seeman,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 28 b/w |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Ways of Dying, Ways of Living
- Chapter 1. Old Worlds of Death
- Chapter 2. First Encounters
- Chapter 3. Burial and Disinterment in the Chesapeake
- Chapter 4. Holy Bones and Beautiful Deaths in New France
- Chapter 5. Grave Missions: Christianizing Death in New England
- Chapter 6. Across the Waters: African American Deathways
- Chapter 7. Crossing Boundaries, Keeping Faith: Jewish Deathways
- Chapter 8. Burial and Condolence in the Seven Years' War
- Conclusion: Ways of Living, Ways of Dying
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments