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Bearing the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Esther Schor
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-11-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural
Bear in Mind These Dead
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Susan McKay
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-02 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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'A moving and timely work, which captures the lasting pain and grief of those who lost loved ones during the Troubles.' Eoin McHugh, Sunday Independent Nearly 4
Only the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Bear F. Braumoeller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

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In Only the Dead, Bear Braumoeller assesses the claim that armed conflict is in decline and finds it wanting. In the course of his assessment, he also develops
The Worship of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 490
Authors: John Garnier
Categories: Ancestor worship
Type: BOOK - Published: 1904 - Publisher:

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The Work of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 736
Authors: Thomas W. Laqueur
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body shou