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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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 against free and ...
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 against free and ...
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In the face of such difficulties , wartime artists searched for a way to commemorate dead soldiers that reflected , even elevated , the corpse's absence and , by extension , the mass scale of death in war . Whitman's wartime writing ...
In the face of such difficulties , wartime artists searched for a way to commemorate dead soldiers that reflected , even elevated , the corpse's absence and , by extension , the mass scale of death in war . Whitman's wartime writing ...
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Brinton's work , as he describes it , was to produce a detailed context for every bone fragment or bullet he could find and in doing so transform the generic nature of wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification ...
Brinton's work , as he describes it , was to produce a detailed context for every bone fragment or bullet he could find and in doing so transform the generic nature of wartime injury into a field for differentiation and classification ...
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... retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents , or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved . During wartime , however , divine retribution provided a popular explanation for the extremity and dura- INTRODUCTION 9.
... retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents , or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved . During wartime , however , divine retribution provided a popular explanation for the extremity and dura- INTRODUCTION 9.
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Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist vision of the United States as a nation among nations .
Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist vision of the United States as a nation among nations .
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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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| 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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