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This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War
- Title
- This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.
- Author
- Faust, Drew Gilpin.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
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- Description
- xviii, 346 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.--From publisher description.
- Subjects
- Burial > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century
- Death > United States > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century
- Death > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century
- Burial > United States > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-322) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-195
- ISBN
- 9780375404047
- 037540404X
- LCCN
- 2007014658
- OCLC
- 123232283
- Author
- Faust, Drew Gilpin.
- Title
- This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-322) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-195IK 08-2925