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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During the antebellum years , reformers , doctors , artists , and politicians , among others , used the bodies of powerless people , most often black , to shape consensus con- cerning the nature of violence and its social applications .
During the antebellum years , reformers , doctors , artists , and politicians , among others , used the bodies of powerless people , most often black , to shape consensus con- cerning the nature of violence and its social applications .
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Thus he demonstrated the irredeemable physicality of the dead and repudiated the body's so- cial nature . Lifting the corpse out of social and religious contexts and establishing it as a source of valuable knowledge , dissection not ...
Thus he demonstrated the irredeemable physicality of the dead and repudiated the body's so- cial nature . Lifting the corpse out of social and religious contexts and establishing it as a source of valuable knowledge , dissection not ...
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... he could find and in doing so transform the generic 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 .
... he could find and in doing so transform the generic 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 .
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Ironically , the potentially alienat- ing , even radicalizing , 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 ...
Ironically , the potentially alienat- ing , even radicalizing , 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 ...
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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 |
| 213 | |
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| Título | John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Cultural studies of the United States |
| Autor | Franny Nudelman |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | UNC Press Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 080785557X, 9780807855577 |
| Largo | 226 páginas |
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