Purified by fire : a history of cremation in America / Stephen Prothero.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001], ©2001.

xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index and bibliography: p. 253-261.

The cremation of Baron De Palm -- Sanitary reform -- Resurrection and the resurrectionists -- The business of cremation -- The memorial idea -- Consumers' last rites -- Contemporary ways of cremation.