John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 2004 - 226 páginas Singing "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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... Battle of Antietam " 109 4.3 . " A Contrast : Federal Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 . " Field Where General Reynolds Fell " 120 ...
... Battle of Antietam " 109 4.3 . " A Contrast : Federal Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 . " Field Where General Reynolds Fell " 120 ...
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... battle - ardors , " and concluded , " We have the elements to make the most martial nation in the world . " 1 In the years following the Second World War , as the United States built its massive nuclear arsenal , Weiss's prophecy was ...
... battle - ardors , " and concluded , " We have the elements to make the most martial nation in the world . " 1 In the years following the Second World War , as the United States built its massive nuclear arsenal , Weiss's prophecy was ...
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... Battle Hymn of the Republic , " which continues to fortify the American public in times of sorrow . This book aims to reverse the song's trajectory by returning to the ma- terial contexts that gave John Brown's corpse and other dead ...
... Battle Hymn of the Republic , " which continues to fortify the American public in times of sorrow . This book aims to reverse the song's trajectory by returning to the ma- terial contexts that gave John Brown's corpse and other dead ...
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... battle , all soldiers were subject to the threat of state - sponsored vio- lence typically directed at criminals . Ironically , the potentially alienat- ing , even radicalizing , nature of this experience required the expression of a ...
... battle , all soldiers were subject to the threat of state - sponsored vio- lence typically directed at criminals . Ironically , the potentially alienat- ing , even radicalizing , nature of this experience required the expression of a ...
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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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