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Attitude to Death - history

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    Women's magazines and the representation of death in eighteenth-century England / Patricia A. Whiting.

    | Whiting, Patricia A. | Date: 1999
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    The topography of remembrance : the dead, tradition and collective memory in Mesopotamia / by Gerdien Jonker ; [translated by Helen Richardson].

    | Gerdien Jonker | Date: 1995
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    Un viaggio infinito... : salute, malattia e morte : percorsi di lettura tra Belgio, Francia e Italia : in ricordo di Paola Vecchi / a cura di Carmelina Imbroscio.

    | Date: 2001
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    Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England / William E. Engel.

    | Engel, William E., 1957- | Date: [1995]
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    Shadows in the valley : a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916 / Alan C. Swedlund.

    | Alan C. Swedlund | Date: [2010]
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Funeral Rites
Death - history
Ancient
England
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Europe
Medieval
History, 19th Century
United States
Mortuary Practice

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