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## A pioneering comparative study of migrant death markers across the British and Irish worlds and what they can tell us about notions of ‘home’ * Sets out an innovative agenda for comparative analysis of death markers in different parts of the formal and informal British Empire * Provides analyses based on hundreds of thousands of gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas * Investigates the effects of religious identities in death and how they differ between memorials in Britain and Ireland As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to their old and new worlds. This book expands upon earlier examination of cultural imperialism to reveal how individuals, kinship groups and occupational connections identified with place and space over time. With analyses based on gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the contributors explore how this evide

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Author

Nicholas Evans, Angela McCarthy, Nicholas J. Evans

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474473804

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, History, Folklore