About this title: Prothero, Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University, offers this first historical study of cremation in America. With information culled from historical and religious texts up to trade journals, Prothero examines the burgeoning legitimacy of and changing attitudes toward cremation.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley CA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780520208162ISBN:0520208161
Description: Good in Good jacket. 6.25 x 9.25. Dj has minor wear, dj and book corners lightly bumped, interior tight and clean, xiv + 266 pp including index, story of the rise of cremation from notoriety to legitimacy, early to modern practices and opinions. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2001-02-15
ISBN-13:9780520208162ISBN:0520208161
Description: Good in very good jacket. Ex library, usual library marks, clean otherwise, very tight binding, dust jacket very good, protected by mylar. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780520208162ISBN:0520208161
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xiv, 266 pp., illus., biblio., index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. "Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kennedy, Jr. ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. : University of California Press, 2001, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780520208162ISBN:0520208161
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very Good/Very Good. vg/vg. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780520208162ISBN:0520208161
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Clean and unmarked inside and out, tightly bound. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 266 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 15/02/2001
ISBN-13:9780520208162ISBN:0520208161
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Fine in publisher's quarter bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
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