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Death in war and peace : loss and grief in England, 1914-1970 / Pat Jalland.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 317 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199265510 (hbk.)
  • 0199265518 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.909420904 22
LOC classification:
  • BF789.D4 J35 2010
Contents:
Death, the Great War, and the influenza pandemic -- Violet Cecil and communities in mourning -- The Bickersteths' sacred pilgrimages to the Great War cemeteries, 1919-1931 -- Death, disasters, and rituals among the northern working classes, 1919-1939 -- Sir Sydney Cockerell: cremation and the modern way of death in England -- The people's war: death in the Blitz -- Missing airmen and families in anguish: 'there could be no mourning' -- Experiences of wartime grief -- Hidden death: medicine and care of the dying, 1945-1970 -- Widowhood, grief, and old age, 1945-1963 -- Gorer's map of death: declining rituals and prolonged grief, 1963 -- Observing grief: C.S. Lewis and C.M. Parkes -- Epilogue: change and continuity since the 1970s.
The history of death is a vital part of human history, and a study of dying and grief takes us to the heart of any culture. Since the First World War there has been a tendency to privatize death, and to minimize the expression of grief and the rituals of mourning. Jalland explores the nature and scope of this cultural shift.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-303) and index.

Death, the Great War, and the influenza pandemic -- Violet Cecil and communities in mourning -- The Bickersteths' sacred pilgrimages to the Great War cemeteries, 1919-1931 -- Death, disasters, and rituals among the northern working classes, 1919-1939 -- Sir Sydney Cockerell: cremation and the modern way of death in England -- The people's war: death in the Blitz -- Missing airmen and families in anguish: 'there could be no mourning' -- Experiences of wartime grief -- Hidden death: medicine and care of the dying, 1945-1970 -- Widowhood, grief, and old age, 1945-1963 -- Gorer's map of death: declining rituals and prolonged grief, 1963 -- Observing grief: C.S. Lewis and C.M. Parkes -- Epilogue: change and continuity since the 1970s.

The history of death is a vital part of human history, and a study of dying and grief takes us to the heart of any culture. Since the First World War there has been a tendency to privatize death, and to minimize the expression of grief and the rituals of mourning. Jalland explores the nature and scope of this cultural shift.

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