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An edition of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008)

This Republic of Suffering

Death and the American Civil War

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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.

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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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368

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Burial Death History Influence Nonfiction Psychological aspects Psychological aspects of Burial Psychological aspects of Death Social aspects Social aspects of Burial Social aspects of Death United States Civil War, 1861-1865 Amerikaanse burgeroorlog Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Coping Soldaten Dood Civil War Period (1850-1877) Large type books State & Local General Death, psychological aspects nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2009-01-25 New York Times bestseller New York Times reviewed Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865) Tod

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19th century Civil War, 1861-1865
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
January 6, 2009, Vintage
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War
Mar 15, 2008, Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks
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This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War
2008, Alfred A. Knopf
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This Republic of Suffering
2008, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
January 8, 2008, Alfred A. Knopf
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This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War
2008, Thorndike Press
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Library of Congress
E468.9 .F385 2008, E468.9 .F385 2008eb

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Hardcover
Number of pages
368
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

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Open Library
OL10751708M
ISBN 10
037540404X
ISBN 13
9780375404047
LCCN
2007014658
OCLC/WorldCat
433030158, 123232283
LibraryThing
4004101
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1283566

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OL2637321W

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