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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... Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century . 7. Death - Symbolic aspects - United States - History - 19th century . 8. Violence - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century . 9. Racism - United States - History ...
... Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century . 7. Death - Symbolic aspects - United States - History - 19th century . 8. Violence - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century . 9. Racism - United States - History ...
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... 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 institutionalized violence directed ...
... 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 institutionalized violence directed ...
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... social harmony . While Puritans viewed the rotting corpse as a reminder of pervasive sin , nineteenth- century mourners beautified and domesticated the dead . By washing , grooming , and posing the corpse , mourners made it look more ...
... social harmony . While Puritans viewed the rotting corpse as a reminder of pervasive sin , nineteenth- century mourners beautified and domesticated the dead . By washing , grooming , and posing the corpse , mourners made it look more ...
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... social difference . While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example ...
... social difference . While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality . Antislavery writers , for example ...
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... social order ; postmortem dissection was the final insult directed at bodies long subject to abuse.15 Dissection instrumentalized the body , narrowing rather than expand- ing its social significance . In this way , it severed the bonds ...
... social order ; postmortem dissection was the final insult directed at bodies long subject to abuse.15 Dissection instrumentalized the body , narrowing rather than expand- ing its social significance . In this way , it severed the bonds ...
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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