Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes

The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man, Or At Least Went A Long Way Toward Doing So; And Death Became The Occasion For A Final Accounting, A Stocktaking Of Worldly Success. Of Course, There Were Other Metrics: Virtue, Martyrdom, Political Standing, Fraternal Ties. But It Took Money To Publicize Them. The Funeral Became More And More A Standardized Commodity Whose Cost Could Be Matched With Exquisite Precision To The Class And Degree Of 'respectability' Of The Deceased. When One Bought A Funeral, One Bought A More Or Less Splendid Parade, Each Additional Bauble, Each Horse, Each Feather Or Set Of Nails Adding To The Base Price. Bit By Bit, Finery Accumulated, And By Looking At The Account Books Of An Undertaker Who Specialized In Pauper Funerals, We Can Begin To See The Bounds Of Decency In Death.

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

Thomas W. Laqueur Quotes: The Falseness Of The Seventeenth Century Became A Large Measure Of The Truth By The Nineteenth. Money Made The Man,

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