{"product_id":"making-space-for-the-dead-9781501715594","title":"Making Space for the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting \"putrid miasmas\" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking Space for the Dead,[is] a book that will make a deep and long-lasting impact on the cultural history of the French Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e * Leonardo Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegacey advances a focused and unusually powerful argument about the changes in Parisian cemetery culture during the Revolution and in its lingering aftermath. [Her] book draws attention to a fascinating aspect of French history, and,,, it holds its place among recent works on material culture in nineteenth-century Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e * H-France *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is written beautifully and with a light touch, in spite of its somber subject... Legacey is to be congratulated for making a significant contribution to our understanding of how Parisians struggled to reimagine their social and moral worlds after the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Revolution of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Problem of the Dead: \u003ci\u003eIn which the French Revolution interrupts and intervenes in Paris's preexisting burial crisis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Solution of the Dead: \u003ci\u003eIn which a range of experts and amateurs imagine a new burial culture for Paris after the Terror.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. The City of the Dead: \u003ci\u003eIn which Parisians visit and respond to their city's new burial space, Père Lachaise Cemetery.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Empire of the Dead: \u003ci\u003eIn which thousands of visitors descend ninety feet below the city to tour the newly opened Paris Catacombs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Museum of the Dead: \u003ci\u003eIn which the artist and administrator Alexandre Lenoir displays the dead as history in the Museumof French Monuments.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Historian of the Dead: \u003ci\u003eIn which the Romantic historian Jules Michelet resurrects the history of France in Parisian spaces for the dead.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409328152919,"sku":"9781501715594","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501715594.jpg?v=1730506437","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-space-for-the-dead-9781501715594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}