We Shall Be No More : : Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States /

We Shall Be No More : : Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States / / Richard Bell.

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Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Bell, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Alarming Progress
  • 1. Suicide and the State of the Union
  • 2. The Sorrows of Young Readers
  • 3. Saving Sinking Strangers
  • 4. Wounds in the Belly of the State
  • 5. The Threshold of Heaven
  • 6. The Problem of Slave Resistance
  • Conclusion: Martyrs on the Altar of the Nation
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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