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100 1 _aFaust, Drew Gilpin.
245 1 0 _aThis republic of suffering :
_bdeath and the American Civil War /
_cDrew Gilpin Faust.
250 _a1st Vintage Civil War library ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bVintage Books,
_c2008.
300 _a346 p. :
_bill., ports ;
_c21 cm.
490 1 _aVintage Civil War library
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe work of death -- Dying: "to lay down my life" -- Killing: "the harder courage" -- Burying: "new lessons caring fro 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.
586 _aNational Book Award finalist.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xSocial aspects.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xPsychological aspects.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xInfluence.
650 0 _aDeath
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aDeath
_zUnited States
_xPsychological aspects
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aBurial
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aBurial
_zUnited States
_xPsychological aspects
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 4 _aPrimera Jornada de Catalogación.
651 4 _aEstados Unidos
_xAspectos sociales.
830 0 _aVintage Civil War library.
938 _aBaker and Taylor
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