{"product_id":"the-cemeteries-of-new-orleans-9780807180389","title":"The Cemeteries of New Orleans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Peter Dedek takes readers from muddy fields of crude burial markers to extravagantly designed cities of the dead, illuminating a vital and vulnerable piece of New Orleans’s identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorians have given surprisingly scant attention to New Orleans's cemeteries, leaving the topic to popular accounts, tourism guidebooks, and coffee-table pictorials. Peter Dedek finally fills this void with an impressively researched and copiously illustrated study that sets the cemeteries into their historical and geographical contexts. . . . The wide-ranging discussion of architectural traits forms the strength of this study. Dedek skillfully critiques the architecture of the tombs [and his] close reading of tombs rediscovers overlooked communities from the city's past. . . . A must-read for scholars and general readers interested in New Orleans and the Gulf South.\" - \u003cem\u003eLouisiana History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anthropologists and historians have long recognized that the form and function of cemeteries reveal cultural values and practices. Historian and preservationist Peter Dedek's \u003ci\u003eThe Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging contribution that sheds light on these topics. . . . Dedek's careful study of tomb designs and his tomb typology appendix provide an opportunity for future research into a comparison between mortuary architecture and the built environment of the surrounding cityscape.\" - \u003cem\u003eBuildings \u0026amp; Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038209016151,"sku":"9780807180389","price":24.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780807180389.jpg?v=1750939495","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cemeteries-of-new-orleans-9780807180389","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}