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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... tion and friendship . In Corvallis , David Robinson urged me on , while Janet Winston and Laura Behnonte kept me sane and happy . A special thanks to Walter Michaels , who offered indispensable encouragement early on , and to my ...
... tion and friendship . In Corvallis , David Robinson urged me on , while Janet Winston and Laura Behnonte kept me sane and happy . A special thanks to Walter Michaels , who offered indispensable encouragement early on , and to my ...
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... tion between good and evil - to obscure , and enable , the ex- ercise of state power , Wilson sought to give an " objective account of the expansion of the United States " by way of the largely idealistic culture of the Civil War.2 My ...
... tion between good and evil - to obscure , and enable , the ex- ercise of state power , Wilson sought to give an " objective account of the expansion of the United States " by way of the largely idealistic culture of the Civil War.2 My ...
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... tion -- because I want to make the simple point that far from breeding life , or strengthening community , violence wreaks havoc on our physical and conceptual worlds . At times , the corpse , in all its grim materiality , calls the ...
... tion -- because I want to make the simple point that far from breeding life , or strengthening community , violence wreaks havoc on our physical and conceptual worlds . At times , the corpse , in all its grim materiality , calls the ...
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... tion of battlefield carnage . This interpretation of the war derived from the belief , shared by many Protestant denominations , that America had been chosen to suffer special tribulations that would precede the revela- tion of God's ...
... tion of battlefield carnage . This interpretation of the war derived from the belief , shared by many Protestant denominations , that America had been chosen to suffer special tribulations that would precede the revela- tion of God's ...
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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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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
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