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- catalog abstract "Presents an update of the 1963 expose of the funeral industry in America, written in response to the unregulated cost of funerals, with new materials on the prepayment trend, monopoly ownership of mortuaries and cemeteries, and other topics.".
- catalog contributor b12159104.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description "1. Not selling. -- 2. The American way of death. -- 3. The funeral transaction. -- 4. The artifacts. -- 5. The story of service. -- 6. The rationale. -- 7. The alied industries. -- 8. God's little million-dollar acre. -- 9. Shroudland revisited. -- 10. Cremation. -- 11. What the public wants. -- 12. Fashions in funerals. -- 13. The newest profession. -- 14. The nosy clergy. -- 15. The Federal Trade Commission. -- 16. A global village of the dead. -- 17. Funerals in England then and now. -- 18. Press and protest. -- 19. Pay now, die poorer. -- 20. New hope for the dead.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Presents an update of the 1963 expose of the funeral industry in America, written in response to the unregulated cost of funerals, with new materials on the prepayment trend, monopoly ownership of mortuaries and cemeteries, and other topics.".
- catalog extent "xix, 296 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0679771867".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Vintage Books,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2007 J-055".
- catalog subject "Attitude to Death United States.".
- catalog subject "Funeral Rites United States.".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies Economic aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "GT 3150 M644a 2000".
- catalog subject "HD9999.U53 U554 1998".
- catalog subject "Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996. American Way of death.".
- catalog subject "Mortuary Practice United States.".
- catalog subject "Undertakers and undertaking United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Not selling. -- 2. The American way of death. -- 3. The funeral transaction. -- 4. The artifacts. -- 5. The story of service. -- 6. The rationale. -- 7. The alied industries. -- 8. God's little million-dollar acre. -- 9. Shroudland revisited. -- 10. Cremation. -- 11. What the public wants. -- 12. Fashions in funerals. -- 13. The newest profession. -- 14. The nosy clergy. -- 15. The Federal Trade Commission. -- 16. A global village of the dead. -- 17. Funerals in England then and now. -- 18. Press and protest. -- 19. Pay now, die poorer. -- 20. New hope for the dead.".
- catalog title "The American way of death revisited / Jessica Mitford.".
- catalog type "text".