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Australian ways of death: a social and cultural history, 1840-1918

Jalland, Patricia.

Year: 2002.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Immigrant Deaths at Sea: The Transition from the Old World to the New

Chapter 1 The terror of 'a watery grave': The deaths of infants and children at sea, 1838-90

Chapter 2 Faith, fever, and consumption: Disease and adult deaths at sea

Part II The Good Christian Death: Transmission from Europe to Australia

Chapter 3 The transmission of the European culture of the good Christian death

Chapter 4 'Angels in heaven': The common tragedies of babies' and children's deaths

Chapter 5 Medical and secular challenges to Christian ideals of death

Chapter 6 Funerals and undertakers

Chapter 7 Women, widowhood, and gendered mourning

Chapter 8 Christian mourning ritual and heavenly consolations

Chapter 9 Memory and mourning: Secular and material commemoration

Chapter 10 Dr Springthorpe's memorialisation of his wife: Melbourne's Taj Mahal

Part III Death and Destitution

Chapter 11 Sick and dying old people in 'benevolent' asylums

Chapter 12 An asylum system 'degrading to the most inhuman race of savages': Revelations and reform in New South Wales

Part IV Death in the Bush and the Great War

Chapter 13 Death and burial in the bush: A distinctive Australian culture of death

Chapter 14 Male deaths in the bush: Frontier violence, old age, suicide, and accidents

Chapter 15 Frontier struggles for survival: Stoical women and lost children

Chapter 16 Epilogue: The Great War and silent grief

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Title:

Australian ways of death : a social and cultural history, 1840-1918 Pat Jalland.

Author:

Jalland, Patricia

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Australian ways of death : a social and cultural history, 1840-1918 Pat Jalland.
Jalland, Patricia
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Subject Headings:

• Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
• Mourning customs -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
• Death -- Social aspects -- Australia
• Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century

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