John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarSinging "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a m |
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1 In the years following the Second World War , as the United States built its massive nuclear arsenal , Weiss's prophecy was fully realized : capable of destroying the planet many times over , this arsenal allowed the United States to ...
1 In the years following the Second World War , as the United States built its massive nuclear arsenal , Weiss's prophecy was fully realized : capable of destroying the planet many times over , this arsenal allowed the United States to ...
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The idea that violence breeds national unity and , indeed , harmony , has allowed U.S. citizens to elevate the violence they inflict on others and imagine that such aggression is the condition of national belonging .
The idea that violence breeds national unity and , indeed , harmony , has allowed U.S. citizens to elevate the violence they inflict on others and imagine that such aggression is the condition of national belonging .
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stripped away the conventions , beliefs , and certainties that allowed peo- ple to love their dead and , by extension , to love one another.5 In order to offer an alternative account of the Civil War dead , in which violence appears ...
stripped away the conventions , beliefs , and certainties that allowed peo- ple to love their dead and , by extension , to love one another.5 In order to offer an alternative account of the Civil War dead , in which violence appears ...
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Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist vision of the United States as a nation among nations .
Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist vision of the United States as a nation among nations .
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The Blood of Millions John Browns Body Public Violence and Political Community | 14 |
The Blood of Black Men Rethinking Radical Science | 40 |
This Compost Death and Regeneration in Civil War Poetry | 71 |
Photographing the War Dead | 103 |
After Emancipation | 132 |
Glory | 165 |
Notes | 177 |
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| Título | John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Cultural studies of the United States |
| Autor | Franny Nudelman |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | UNC Press Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 080785557X, 9780807855577 |
| Largo | 226 páginas |
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