The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America

This study provides a cultural history of cemeteries and their changing role from the 1830s through the early twentieth century. The author examines how cemeteries became places for leisure, communing with nature, and crafting collective memory and analyzes how they served as prototypes for urban planning and city parks.

• | Author: Jeffrey Smith
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: November 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 182 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 149852902X
• | ISBN-13: 9781498529020