Australian ways of death : a social and cultural history, 1840-1918

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Australian ways of death : a social and cultural history, 1840-1918

Pat Jalland

Oxford University Press, 2002

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Bibliography: p. 362-370

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Pat Jalland, one of Australia's most successful historians, has now turned her attention to Australian subjects. This book is the result of intensive research into where and how people have died in Australia, how they have been buried, mourned and commemmorated, and how social and regional factors have influenced mortality rates and people's consciousness of death and loss. Ways of Death describes how Australians in the past came to terms with death within the constraints and cultural perspectives of their own times. Historians in other western societies have responded to the growing interest and concern with death through books, conferences, and journals, but until now there has been little Australian material available to satisfy the increasing interest in the subject, stimulated by events such as debated on euthanasia, new developments in technology, and youth suicides.

Table of Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART 1: IMMIGRANT DEATHS AT SEA: THE TRANSITION FROM THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW
  • 1. The terror of 'a watery grave': the deaths of infants and children at sea, 1838-1890
  • 2. Faith, fever and consumption: disease and adult deaths at sea
  • PART 2: THE GOOD CHRISTIAN DEATH: TRANSMISSION FROM EUROPE TO AUSTRALIA
  • 3. The Transmission of the European Culture of the Good Protestant Death
  • 4. 'Angels in Heaven': the common tragedies of babies' and children's deaths
  • 5. Medical and secular challenges to Christian ideals of death
  • 6. Funerals and undertakers
  • 7. Women, widowhood, and gendered mourning
  • 8. Christian mourning ritual and heavenly consolations
  • 9. Memory and mourning: secular and material commemoration
  • 10. Dr Springthorpe's memorialisation of his wife: Melbourne's Taj Mahal
  • PART 3: DEATH AND DESTITUTION
  • 11. Sick and dying old people in benevolent asylums
  • 12. An asylum system 'degrading to the most inhuman race of savages': revelations and reform in New South Wales
  • PART 4: DEATH IN THE BUSH AND THE GREAT WAR
  • 13. Death and burial in the bush: a distinctive Australian culture of death
  • 14. Male deaths in the bush: frontier violence, old age, suicide, and accidents
  • 15. Frontier struggles for survival: stoical women and lost children
  • 16. Epilogue: the Great War and silent grief
  • ENDNOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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