This Republic of Suffering
Death and the American Civil War
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Word Count
92,000 words, Guess
Page Count
368 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10751708M
- ISBN-139780375404047
- ISBN-10037540404X
- OCLC Control Number433030158
- OCLC Control Number123232283
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numberthisrepublicofsu00faus
- Library of Congress Control Number2007014658
- Goodreads1283566
- LibraryThing4004101
Classifications
- LCCE468.9 .F385 2008
- DDC973.7/1
Description
An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.
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