Category - History
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Fragile Grounds: Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A visual treasury of disappearing cemeteries and a call to preserve and document them Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781496814326 Media Type: Hardcove...
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New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95Original price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the earliest memorials used by Native Americans to the elaborate structures of the present day, Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied use grave ma...
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world....
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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Journalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the h...
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Death in Ancient Rome
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /For the Romans, the manner of a person's death was the most telling indication of their true character. Death revealed the true patriot, the genu...
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Merits of the Plague
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ag...
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Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governanc...
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Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which...
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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Astonishing. . . fascinating . . . powerful. . .This clever, sensitive book gives us a new way to think about death, not as the final chapter, but...
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.”...
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The astonishing story of how the dead live on via memorials across the globe, from Ethiopia and Nepal to Cambodia and Rwanda, told through arrest...
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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95Original price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared his...
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A “wide-ranging and thoughtful” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated hea...
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The Train Driver and Other Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this."—Athol Fugard "A dramatic, mo...
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