Part 1: General Patterns and Connections
1. Patterns Of Death, 1800-2020: Global Rates And Causes
Romola Davenport
2. Mass Death During Modern Epidemics: Horrors and Their Consequences
Samuel Cohn
3. Violent Death
Philip Dwyer
4. Suicidology on the Cusp of Modernity: Sociology and Psychiatry in the 19th Century
David Lederer
5. Death-Seeking Turns Political: A Historical Template For Terrorism
Anna Geifman
6. Toward a World Without the Death Penalty
Jon Yorke and Alice Storey
7. The Cemetery
Erin-Marie Legacey
8. Death, Commemoration, and the Era Of Total War In Europe
Jesse Kauffman
9. The Transformation of Death Discourse: From ‘Taboo’ to ‘Revival’ at the Threshold of the New Millennium
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Part 2: Regional Patterns
10. “Why may not man be one day immortal?”: Rethinking Death in the Age of Enlightenment
Joseph Clarke
11. "Now for the Grand Secret:" A History of the Post-Mortem Identity and Heavenly Reunions, 1800-2000
John C. Weaver and Doug Munro
12. Death in Modern North American History
Peter N. Stearns
13. Death In Mexico: Image And Reality
Stanley Brandes
14. Death in Modern Japan (1800—2020)
Timothy Benedict
15. Picturing the Dead in Early Twentieth-Century China: Bodies, Burial, and the Photography of the Chinese Red Cross Burial Corps
Caroline Reeves
16. Remaking the Hindu Pyre: Cremation in India since the 1830s
David Arnold
17. Muslim Beliefs About Death; From Classical Formulations To Modern Applications
Abdulaziz Sachedina
18. Death in Africa: A History c.1800 to Present Day
Rebekah Lee and Megan Vaughan
19. Rituals Of Death In The Caribbean Diaspora, 1970-: The Immigrant Dilemmas
Garrey Michael Dennie
Part 3: Special Topics
20. Premature Burial and the Mysteries of Death
Joanna Bourke
21. Murdering Mothers and Dutiful Daughters: Infanticide in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Nora E. Jaffary
22. ‘I wish we could have saved him for you’: Australia’s experience of death and bereavement in war, 1914-1918
Jen Roberts
23. Soviet Cemeteries
Svetlana Malysheva
24. Death in Modern Film
Thomas Britt
25. Of Presidential Mausoleums and Politics in Neo-Liberal Zambia, 2008 to 2018
Walima T. Kalusa and Kelvin Chanda
26. Celebrating Creation and Commemorating Life: Ritualizing Pet Death in the U.S. and Japan
Barbara R. Ambros
27. Hospice: A Way to Die
Lucy Bregman
28. “A Profound Shift In Policy”: The History Of Assisted Suicide
Ian Dowbiggin
29. Conclusion: Future Trajectories of Death: Speculations and Raising Questions
Cortney Hughes Rinker
Biography
Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University, USA.
