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Death and Dying, Life and Living Links and Biblio:  Historical Death and Dying

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Barley, Nigel.  Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World.  NY: Henry Holt, 1997. GT3150 .B34 1997

Binsky, Paul.  Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation.  London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Damousi, Joy.  Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. Cambridge UP 1999

D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara and Catharine H. Roehrig.  Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt.  1992.  DT59.B6 M86 1992.

Edkins, Jenny. Trauma and the Memory of Politics. Cambridge 2003

Fairchild, Louis.  Death and Revival on an American Frontier.  2002.  F391 .F26 2002

Geary, Patrick J.  Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages.  Ithaca: Cornell, 1994.

Graham, John W. The Gold Star Mother Pilgrimages of the 1930s: Overseas Grave Visitations by Mothers and Widows of Fallen U.S. World War I Soldiers. McFarland & Co., 2005.

Habenstein, Robert W. and William M. Lamers.  The History of American Funeral Directing.  Milwaukee: Bulfin Printers, Revised, 2001.

Harding, Vanessa.  Dead and the Living in Paris and London 1600-1670.  2002.  GT3244.L66 H37 2002.

Isenberg, Nancy, ed. Mortal Remains: Death in Early America.  2003.  HQ1073.5.U6 M67 2003.

Jalland, Patricia.  Death in a Victorian Family.  NY: Oxford, 1996.

Laderman, Gary. Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth Century America. 2003 HD999 .U53 U543 2003

Laderman, Gary.  Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883.  1996.  BR525 .L25 1996.

LeNaour, Jean-Yves. Trans. Penny Allen. The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War. Henry Holt. 2004

Luckins, Tanja.  The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. Fremantle Arts Creative Press. 2004

MacGregor, Geddes.  Images of Afterlife: Beliefs from Antiquity to Modern Times.  NY: Paragon, 1992. BL535.M23 1992

Nichols, Elaine, ed.  The Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions. 1890-Present.  Collumbia; South Carolina State Museum, 1989.

Pratt, Colin.  King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England.  London: University College of London Press, 1996.  

Prothero, Stephen.  Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.   GT3330 .P76 2000

Shay, Johnathon.  Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Scribners 2003.

Stout, Janis P. Coming out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars. U Alabama. 2005.

Taylor, John H.  Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt.  2001. BL2450 .D43 T39 2001

Watson, James L. and Evelyn S. Rawski, eds.  Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Weisel, Mindy.  Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss. Capital Books. 2001. (Daughters of Holocaust survivors)

Ancient World Cultures:  http://eawc.evansville.edu/nepage.htm

International Social History:  http://www.iisg.nl/index.html

Interpreting the Irish Famine 1848-1850 (A Collection of Documents): http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html