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Photo Portfolio | p. ix |
Preface: Tombstones to Live By | p. xiii |
Claiming the Land | p. 1 |
Marking the Grave | p. 10 |
Solidarity in the Cemetery | p. 28 |
Distancing the Dead | p. 42 |
Death's-Heads and Funeral Gloves: Boston, Massachusetts | p. 52 |
"Gone Are the Living, but the Dead Remain": Newport, Rhode Island | p. 68 |
Cemeteries as Real Estate: New York City | p. 82 |
Plain and Fancy: Philadelphia and Lancaster County | p. 98 |
The Southern Way of Death: South Carolina and Georgia | p. 112 |
New Orleans: Where It's Better to Be Buried above Ground | p. 139 |
Rituals of Remembrance: St. Louis and the Boonslick | p. 151 |
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Underground Chicago | p. 170 |
Celebrating the Dead in Polyglot Texas | p. 191 |
California: Missionaries, Miners, Moguls, and Movie Stars | p. 207 |
Who Owns the Bones? Sites and Rites in Hawaii | p. 232 |
National Military Cemeteries | p. 256 |
Old and New Fashions in Death | p. 272 |
Endnotes | p. 299 |
Acknowledgments | p. 315 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 317 |
Index | p. 321 |
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