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008 091603s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 _a2007014658
020 _a9781410408310
082 0 0 _aLARP 973.71 FAU
100 1 _aFaust, Drew Gilpin
245 1 0 _aThis republic of suffering
_b: death and the American Civil War
_c/ Drew Gilpin Faust
260 _aDetroit
_b: Gale Cengage
_c, 2008.
300 _a346 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-322) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 3 _aAn 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.
650 0 _aDeath
_x--Social aspects
_z--United States
_y--History
_j-19th century
650 _aDeath
_z-United States
_x-Psychological aspects
_x-History
_y-19th century
650 _aBurial
_x-Social aspects
_z-United States
_x-History
_y-19th century
650 0 _aBurial
_x--Psychological aspects
_z--United States
_y--History
_j-19th century
651 4 _aUnited States
_x-History
_y-Civil war, 1861-1865
651 _aUnited States
_x-History
_y-Civil War, 1861-1865
_x-Influence
830 _aLarge print books
942 _cMO
999 _c230554
_d230554