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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... living . My faithful longtime friends have buoyed me up across large distances : Thalia Stanley , Steven Sugarman , Kimberly Moses , Stephanie Hoch- man , Marcus Verhagen , Carol Lloyd , Hank Pellissier , Gary Wolf , Alan Lyons ...
... living . My faithful longtime friends have buoyed me up across large distances : Thalia Stanley , Steven Sugarman , Kimberly Moses , Stephanie Hoch- man , Marcus Verhagen , Carol Lloyd , Hank Pellissier , Gary Wolf , Alan Lyons ...
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... living to rededicate themselves to the project of war in the face of stunning loss and destruction . Indeed , the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest ...
... living to rededicate themselves to the project of war in the face of stunning loss and destruction . Indeed , the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest ...
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... living and the dead that , in turn , provided a model for social harmony . While Puritans viewed the rotting corpse as a reminder of pervasive sin , nineteenth- century mourners beautified and domesticated the dead . By washing ...
... living and the dead that , in turn , provided a model for social harmony . While Puritans viewed the rotting corpse as a reminder of pervasive sin , nineteenth- century mourners beautified and domesticated the dead . By washing ...
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... living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example , used scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership . In Uncle ...
... living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example , used scenes of loss and mourning to structure their appeal to an unenslaved readership . In Uncle ...
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... living and the dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for their interrelatedness . Thus he demonstrated the irredeemable physicality of the dead and repudiated the body's so- cial nature . Lifting ...
... living and the dead , the anatomist enumerated parts of the body without offering any context for their interrelatedness . Thus he demonstrated the irredeemable physicality of the dead and repudiated the body's so- cial nature . Lifting ...
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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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