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Australian ways of death: a social and cultural history, 1840-1918
Patricia Jalland-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page v)
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Introduction (page 1)
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Part 1 Immigrant Deaths at Sea: The Transition from the Old World to the New
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Chapter 1 The terror of 'a watery grave': The deaths of infants and children at sea, 1838-90 (page 15)
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Chapter 2 Faith, fever, and consumption: Disease and adult deaths at sea (page 33)
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Part II The Good Christian Death: Transmission from Europe to Australia
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Chapter 3 The transmission of the European culture of the good Christian death (page 51)
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Chapter 4 'Angels in heaven': The common tragedies of babies' and children's deaths (page 69)
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Chapter 5 Medical and secular challenges to Christian ideals of death (page 88)
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Chapter 6 Funerals and undertakers (page 108)
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Chapter 7 Women, widowhood, and gendered mourning (page 129)
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Chapter 8 Christian mourning ritual and heavenly consolations (page 144)
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Chapter 9 Memory and mourning: Secular and material commemoration (page 161)
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Chapter 10 Dr Springthorpe's memorialisation of his wife: Melbourne's Taj Mahal (page 177)
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Part III Death and Destitution
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Chapter 11 Sick and dying old people in 'benevolent' asylums (page 199)
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Chapter 12 An asylum system 'degrading to the most inhuman race of savages': Revelations and reform in New South Wales (page 219)
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Part IV Death in the Bush and the Great War
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Chapter 13 Death and burial in the bush: A distinctive Australian culture of death (page 243)
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Chapter 14 Male deaths in the bush: Frontier violence, old age, suicide, and accidents (page 263)
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Chapter 15 Frontier struggles for survival: Stoical women and lost children (page 284)
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Chapter 16 Epilogue: The Great War and silent grief (page 304)
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Abbreviations (page 329)
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Notes (page 330)
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Select bibliography (page 362)
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Index (page 371)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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VS | 46.2 (2004): 340-342 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v046/46.2kellehear.html |
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Published: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195507546 (paper)
- 9780195507546 (hardcover)