Normal view MARC view ISBD view

This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust

By:

Faust, Drew Gilpin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780375404047

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.71 FAU

Contents:

The work of death -- Dying: "to lay down my life" -- Killing: "the harder courage" -- Burying: "new lessons caring for the dead" -- Naming: "the significant word UNKNOWN" -- Realizing: civilians and the work of mourning -- Believing and doubting: "what means this carnage?" -- Accounting: "our obligations to the dead" -- Numbering: "how many? how many?" -- Epilogue: Surviving.

Abstract: 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.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	973.71 FAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		022430

Browsing Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	973.7 WIT Witness to the Civil War : first-hand accounts from Frank Leslie's illustrated newpaper	973.7043 HEN The living and the dead : Robert McNamara and five lives of a lost war	973.7092 GOP Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life	973.71 FAU This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War	973.71 FRE The road to disunion	973.71 GOO 1861 : the Civil War awakening	973.716 DAV Look away! : A History of the Confederate States of America	Next

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-322) and index.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.