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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... 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 A portion of this book was previously published , in somewhat different form , as " " The Blood of Millions ' : John Brown's Body , Public Violence , and Political Community , " American Literary History 14 , no .
... 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 A portion of this book was previously published , in somewhat different form , as " " The Blood of Millions ' : John Brown's Body , Public Violence , and Political Community , " American Literary History 14 , no .
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CONTENTS List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction I I The Blood of Millions : John Brown's Body , Public Violence , and Political Community 14 2 The Blood of Black Men : Rethinking Racial Science 40 3 " This Compost ...
CONTENTS List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction I I The Blood of Millions : John Brown's Body , Public Violence , and Political Community 14 2 The Blood of Black Men : Rethinking Racial Science 40 3 " This Compost ...
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he imagines the soldier who " crawls aside to some bush - clump , or ferny tuft , on receiving his death - shot - there sheltering a little while , soaking roots , grass and soil , with red blood ... the last lethargy winds like a ...
he imagines the soldier who " crawls aside to some bush - clump , or ferny tuft , on receiving his death - shot - there sheltering a little while , soaking roots , grass and soil , with red blood ... the last lethargy winds like a ...
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Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood . " 19 Anticipating widespread violence , Brown rehearsed one of the most powerful , and incendiary , arguments made by antislavery radicals in the prewar years : if ...
Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood . " 19 Anticipating widespread violence , Brown rehearsed one of the most powerful , and incendiary , arguments made by antislavery radicals in the prewar years : if ...
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... and then the next , these particulars help us to rediscover the weave of intention and result too quickly forgotten as wars assume their triumphal narrative shape . 1 THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS JOHN BROWN'S BODY , PUBLIC INTRODUCTION 13.
... and then the next , these particulars help us to rediscover the weave of intention and result too quickly forgotten as wars assume their triumphal narrative shape . 1 THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS JOHN BROWN'S BODY , PUBLIC INTRODUCTION 13.
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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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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
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