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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... experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a larger community . 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 ...
... experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a larger community . 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 ...
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... experienced similar grief . As they passed from hand to hand , commemo- rative objects , which embodied the residual vitality of the dead , bound the living to one another.8 Mourning not only fortified local ties in the wake of death ...
... experienced similar grief . As they passed from hand to hand , commemo- rative objects , which embodied the residual vitality of the dead , bound the living to one another.8 Mourning not only fortified local ties in the wake of death ...
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... experience . Subject to forms of violence typically reserved for the disenfranchised , dead soldiers were dismembered , objectified , and studied in the name of the greater good . The Army Medical Museum , founded by the federal ...
... experience . Subject to forms of violence typically reserved for the disenfranchised , dead soldiers were dismembered , objectified , and studied in the name of the greater good . The Army Medical Museum , founded by the federal ...
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... experience , identity , or essence — was determined by professionals able to extract knowledge and , by extension , authority from it . The Scaffold Although John Brown was a celebrated martyr during the war years , in December 1859 he ...
... experience , identity , or essence — was determined by professionals able to extract knowledge and , by extension , authority from it . The Scaffold Although John Brown was a celebrated martyr during the war years , in December 1859 he ...
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... experience required the expression of a severe and exacting discipline to keep soldiers in line . The Civil War witnessed an unprecedented number of Union army executions— an estimated 267 — unequalled by any subsequent war in U.S. ...
... experience required the expression of a severe and exacting discipline to keep soldiers in line . The Civil War witnessed an unprecedented number of Union army executions— an estimated 267 — unequalled by any subsequent war in U.S. ...
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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