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Bloomsbury A Cultural History of Death in the Age of Empire (The Cultural Histories Series)

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This book examines deathâ€™s changing topography in Britain, France, the US, sub-Saharan Africa, British India, Australia and elsewhere from the perspectives of history, anthropology, and literary studies. It illuminates the religious and civil rites of passage societies created and maintained to mark dying, death and the treatment of human remains at a time when large forces were transforming the world. The essays in this volume illustrate the ways in which power went to work in deathâ€™s realm during a period of severe dislocation associated with industrialization, urbanization and imperialism, and mass movements of people, both forced and free. They show how, between 1800 and 1920 in the west, certain peopleâ€™s bodies were considered to be of more value than others, so while some were cared for and memorialized those who were socially disconnected and poor were vulnerable to being turned into objects of study or disposed of in paupersâ€™ graves. Meanwhile, abroad, imperialists acted upon the belief that idealized western ways of dying and corpse disposal had most moral worth. In empireâ€™s cause they interfered with othersâ€™ funerary and mortuary rituals, and deployed political and scientific theories to argue that high local mortality rates reflected a peopleâ€™s own moral and material backwardness, and that the extinction of so-called savage races was inevitable rather than man-made. A Cultural History of Death is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1472537548
Category: Books > Subjects > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 June 2026
Listed Since: 03 March 2026

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