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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... nature of violence and its social applications . Both those who sought to justify slavery and those who sought to resist it exerted a mighty influence on wartime reactions to the crisis of mass death . In light of a history of ...
... nature of violence and its social applications . Both those who sought to justify slavery and those who sought to resist it exerted a mighty influence on wartime reactions to the crisis of mass death . In light of a history of ...
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... nature . Lifting the corpse out of social and religious contexts and establishing it as a source of valuable knowledge , dissection not only ex- cluded the dead from a religious narrative of burial and resurrection but also from forms ...
... nature . Lifting the corpse out of social and religious contexts and establishing it as a source of valuable knowledge , dissection not only ex- cluded the dead from a religious narrative of burial and resurrection but also from forms ...
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... nature of wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification that resembled other systems for order- ing large quantities of men , supplies , and information . Brinton insists that his museum does not represent a ...
... nature of wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification that resembled other systems for order- ing large quantities of men , supplies , and information . Brinton insists that his museum does not represent a ...
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... nature of this 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 ...
... nature of this 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 ...
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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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