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A Century and One-half of American Epitaphs (1660–1813): Toward the Study of Collective Attitudes about Death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Michel Vovelle
Michel Vovelle
Affiliation:
Université de Provence
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Extract

The history of collective attitudes about death, a branch of the newhistory of mentalités, was until recently considered a speciality, or even acuriosity that was peculiarly French, or so at least, E. Le Roy Laduriewrote with reference to the work of Philippe Aries, Francois Lebrun and myself in his Territory of the Historian.

Type
Measures of Belief
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 1980 , pp. 534 - 547
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1980

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References

1 Alden, Timothy, A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions with Occasional Notes, 4 vols. (New York, 1814, reprinted by Arno Press, 1977, as part of “The Literature of Death and Dying”.)Google Scholar