Making Space for the Dead : : Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 / / Erin-Marie Legacey.
The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 16 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Revolution of the Dead
- 1. The Problem of the Dead
- 2. The Solution of the Dead
- 3. The City of the Dead
- 4. The Empire of the Dead
- 5. The Museum of the Dead
- Conclusion: The Historian of the Dead
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index