This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) Book

This Republic of Suffering : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780375703836 : 0375703837 : 06 Jan 2009 : 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.Read More

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    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.

  • 0375703837
  • 9780375703836
  • Drew Gilpin Faust
  • 6 January 2009
  • Vintage Books USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
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