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Digging Up the Dead

A History of Notable American Reburials

Autor: Michael Kammen
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-20 dnů
655 Kč
With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure tro...

Informace o knize

Autor
Michael Kammen
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2011
Stránek
272
EAN
9780226423302
ISBN
0226423301
Enbook ID
04546273
Vydavatel
The University of Chicago Press
Hmotnost
418
Rozměry
154 x 23 x 17

Kompletní popis

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites of such figures as Sitting Bull, John Paul Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Boone, Jefferson Davis, and even Abraham Lincoln, Kammen explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures. Grave-robbing, skull-fondling, cases of mistaken identity, and the financial lures of cemetery tourism all come into play as Kammen delves deeply into this little-known - yet surprisingly persistent - aspect of American history. Simultaneously insightful and interesting, masterly and macabre, "Digging Up the Dead" reminds us that the stories of American history don't always end when the key players pass on. Rather, the battle - over reputations, interpretations, and, last but far from least, possession of the remains themselves - is often just beginning.

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