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U.S. Military Cemetery. (Courtesy of Douglas Keister.)
U.S. Military Cemetery. (Courtesy of Douglas Keister.)		 Spaces of the Dead by Thomas W. Laqueur

by Thomas W. Laqueur


Thomas W. Laqueur is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and spent 2000-01 as a John P. Birkelund Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He has written on many areas of European cultural history—working-class religion, literacy, radical politics, memory, funerals, cemeteries, and human rights—but is perhaps best known for Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, which addresses the history of understanding the biology of sexual difference. This article is part of a forthcoming book called Death in Our Times.

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Ideas, Vol. 8, No. 2
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