Mortal Remains

Death in Early America

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Editor:

Isenberg, Nancy
Burstein, Andrew

ISBN:

978-0-8122-0806-1

Publication Date:

Jul 2012

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press

Book Format:

Ebook

List Price:

USD $29.95

Book Description:

"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influenced US culture before 1860."--Choice

Book Details

Pages:	264
Detailed Subjects:	Religion / Sermons / Christian Literary Criticism / Books & Reading Religion / Christianity / History

Author Biography

(Editor)

Nancy Isenberg received her Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University.

She is the author of Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America; Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (winner of the 2008 Oklahoma Book Award for non-fiction); Madison and Jefferson, co-authored with Andrew Burstein, was named one of the top five non-fiction titles of 2010 by Kirkus; and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, which is a 2016 New York Times Bestseller.

She has been featured on C-SPAN2 "Book TV," and on various NPR programs. She and Andrew Burstein are regular contributors to Salon.com.

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