This Republic of Suffering:Death and the American Civil War

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出版社: Random House US
2009-01
版次: 1
ISBN: 9780375703836
装帧: 平装
开本: 16开
纸张: 胶版纸
页数: 346页
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  • More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the AmericanCivil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would besix million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew GilpinFaust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not onlyindividual lives but the life of the nation, describing how thesurvivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religiousculture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with itsbelief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers andtheir families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons,nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us avivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widelyshared reality. List of Illustrations

    Preface: The Work of Death

    1. Dying: “To Lay Down My Life”

    2. Killing: “The Harder Courage”

    3. Burying: “New Lessons Caring for the Dead”

    4. Naming: “The Significant Word UNKNOWN”

    5. Realizing: Civilians and the Work of Mourning

    6. Believing and Doubting: “What Means this Carnage?”

    7. Accounting: “Our Obligations to the Dead”

    8. Numbering: “How Many? How Many?”

    Epilogue: Surviving

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index
  • 内容简介:
    More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the AmericanCivil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would besix million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew GilpinFaust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not onlyindividual lives but the life of the nation, describing how thesurvivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religiousculture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with itsbelief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers andtheir families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons,nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us avivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widelyshared reality.
  • 目录:
    List of Illustrations

    Preface: The Work of Death

    1. Dying: “To Lay Down My Life”

    2. Killing: “The Harder Courage”

    3. Burying: “New Lessons Caring for the Dead”

    4. Naming: “The Significant Word UNKNOWN”

    5. Realizing: Civilians and the Work of Mourning

    6. Believing and Doubting: “What Means this Carnage?”

    7. Accounting: “Our Obligations to the Dead”

    8. Numbering: “How Many? How Many?”

    Epilogue: Surviving

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index
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