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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801851289
ISBN-139780801851285
eBay Product ID (ePID)312176
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLast Great Necessity : Cemeteries in American History
Publication Year1995
SubjectLandscape, General, United States / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArchitecture, History
AuthorDavid C. Sloane
SeriesCreating the North American Landscape Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width7.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Four generations of David Charles Sloane's family have designed, landscaped, and managed cemeteries, so when he tells that story in The Last Great Necessity he does so with a professional's equanimity and expertise. In his exploration of the evolving design, economics, and social role of the American cemetery, Sloane handily demonstrates the cemetery's vital connection to popular culture, one he believes to be at least as strong as its more obvious tie to religious custom."-- Voice Literary Supplement, "An important contribution to an understanding of how Americans perceived death and to the growing commercialization of burial practices and customs. The more than fifty illustrations and tables provide dramatic evidence of a changing cultural form."-- Historian, "The most comprehensive history of American cemeteries yet published... Sloane's most original contribution is his analysis of the management side of cemetery life, showing how economic changes and institutions affected religious and aesthetic ideals in the cemetery."-- Journal of American History
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal393/.1/0973
SynopsisThe Last Great Necessity is a quite wonderful, and often surprising, portrait of American popular culture in action. As David Charles Sloane traces the history of modern cemeteries he meets all the ambivalences and coping strategies Americans have used when they have been forced by nature to confront the meanings of their lives. - From Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Boston University.
