This Republic of Suffering
Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
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Word Count
92,000 words, Guess
Page Count
368 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24084973M
- ISBN-139780375703836
- ISBN-100375703837
- OCLC Control Number797216010
- OCLC Control Number229027359
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007014658
Classifications
- LCCE468.9.F385 2008
Description
A study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the 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 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.
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