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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... wartime reactions to the crisis of mass death . In light of a history of institutionalized violence directed against free and enslaved African Americans during the prewar years , wartime car- nage does not appear to be an inevitable ...
... wartime reactions to the crisis of mass death . In light of a history of institutionalized violence directed against free and enslaved African Americans during the prewar years , wartime car- nage does not appear to be an inevitable ...
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... 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 grapples with the challenge ...
... 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 grapples with the challenge ...
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... 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 " collection 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 " collection of ...
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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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... 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 . In a millennial context , violence ...
... 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 . In a millennial context , violence ...
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 |
213 | |
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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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