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Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America Hardcover - 2001
by Stephen Prothero
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ON DECEMBER 6, 1876, IN THE SMALL town of Washington, Pennsylvania, the corpse of Baron Joseph Henry Louis Charles De Palm went up in the flames in an event billed as the first cremation in modern America.
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- Title Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America
- Author Stephen Prothero
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 266
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
- Date February 15, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780520208162 / 0520208161
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.26 x 0.97 in (23.65 x 15.90 x 2.46 cm)
- Reading level 1340
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs, Public opinion - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00059005
- Dewey Decimal Code 393.2
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 266pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Red paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. show. Purified by Fire tells the fascinating story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years. Stephen Prothero synthesizes a wide array of previously untapped source material, including newspapers, consumer guides, mortician trade journals, and popular…
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