| This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist) Contributor(s): Faust, Drew Gilpin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375703837 ISBN-13: 9780375703836 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: The president of Harvard University presents this innovative study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and consequences of death in the face of the unprecedented slaughter of the Civil War. 56 illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - United States - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 973.71 |
| Series: Vintage Civil War Library |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.44" W x 7.98" (0.72 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. |