1st Edition
A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924
By Kaylee P. Alexander
Copyright 2024
172 Pages
19 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
172 Pages
19 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
172 Pages
19 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure.
This study represents the first full-length study of vernacular monuments in France and the entrepreneurs who made them. It also provides methodical... Read more
Preface Introduction 1. After 23 Prairial: Negotiating the Social and Urban Consequences of Cemetery Reform after 1804 2. Marbriers de Paris: The Stonecutting Profession and Its Reputation as a Funerary Profession 3. Bespoke, Ready-Made . . . or Something in Between? 4. Toward a Visual Culture of Permanence Epilogue: Société Le Roy Bouillon
Biography
Kaylee P. Alexander is the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow for Digital Matters at the University of Utah.
