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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... efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent scholarship that can be loosely grouped under the rubric " Vio- lence Studies . " As this field grows , we come to recognize that violence is , as Joseph Roach puts it , a " form of cultural ...
... efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent scholarship that can be loosely grouped under the rubric " Vio- lence Studies . " As this field grows , we come to recognize that violence is , as Joseph Roach puts it , a " form of cultural ...
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... effort to elevate the corpses of dead soldiers worked not only to sanctify the war but also to disentangle it from the violence traditionally visited on powerless people . In the context of a war initially fought to stem the spread of ...
... effort to elevate the corpses of dead soldiers worked not only to sanctify the war but also to disentangle it from the violence traditionally visited on powerless people . In the context of a war initially fought to stem the spread of ...
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... effort to strengthen federal power by way of system - building that would ensure efficiency during the war and obedience in its aftermath . In June 1862 , Brinton was asked to prepare " the Surgical History of the Re- bellion " ( 169 ) ...
... effort to strengthen federal power by way of system - building that would ensure efficiency during the war and obedience in its aftermath . In June 1862 , Brinton was asked to prepare " the Surgical History of the Re- bellion " ( 169 ) ...
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... effort to use the scaffold to exert power and control . Brown used his trial and exe- cution to speak out against slavery and condemn the country that was preparing to put him to death . From the scaffold , he prophesied apoca- lyptic ...
... effort to use the scaffold to exert power and control . Brown used his trial and exe- cution to speak out against slavery and condemn the country that was preparing to put him to death . From the scaffold , he prophesied apoca- lyptic ...
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Contenido
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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