Description: Further DetailsTitle: Just Enough to Put Him Away DecentCondition: NewDescription: As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent, as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally different in 1955 than it had just fifty years earlier. Author: Kristine M. McCuskerCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780252087219Format: PaperbackGenre: Society & CultureISBN: 9780252087219ISBN-10: 0252087216Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 399gItem Width: 28mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: University of Illinois PressRelease Date: 06/20/2023Subtitle: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955Topic: Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780252087219
Genre: Society & Culture
ISBN: 9780252087219
ISBN-10: 0252087216
Release Date: 06/20/2023
Release Year: 2023
Subtitle: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South,
Title: Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 318 Pages
Publication Name: Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent : Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Death & Dying, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, Customs & Traditions
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Kristine M. Mccusker
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
