Awaiting the Heavenly Country : : The Civil War and America's Culture of Death /

Awaiting the Heavenly Country : : The Civil War and America's Culture of Death / / Mark S. Schantz.

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"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They belie...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Schantz, Mark S.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 30 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. "Emblems of Mortality"
  • Chapter Two. "The Heavenly Country"
  • Chapter Three. "Melancholy Pleasure"
  • Chapter Four. "A Voice from the Ruins"
  • Chapter Five. "Better to Die Free, Than to Live Slaves"
  • Chapter Six. "The Court of Death"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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