Death in America / Philippe Ariès[and others] ; edited, with an introduction by David E. Stannard.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975, ©1974.

xv, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Substantial portions of this book were originally published in the American quarterly"

Goody, J. Death and the interpretation of culture.--Stannard, D. E. Death and the Puritan child.--Saum, L. O. Death in the popular mind of pre-Civil War America.--Douglas, A. Heaven our home: consolation literature in the northern United States, 1830-1880.--French, S. The cemetery as cultural institution.--Kelly, P. F. Death in Mexican folk culture.--Meyers, M. A. Gates Ajar: death in Mormon thought and practice.--Ariès, P. The reversal of death.

Includes bibliographic references