This Republic of Suffering · Death and the American Civil War
- Authors
- Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Tags
- burial , grief , bereavement , group reading , war , military , 19th century , social aspects , death - social aspects - united states - history - 19th century , history , books and reading , book clubs (discussion groups) , civil war period (1850-1877) , family & relationships , 1861-1865 - psychological aspects , burial - social aspects - united states - history - 19th century , death - united states - psychological aspects - history - 19th century , burial - united states - psychological aspects - history - 19th century , united states - history - civil war , death , 1861-1865 - influence , 1861-1865 - social aspects , psychological aspects , united states
- ISBN
- 9780307268587
- Date
- 2008-01-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 4.24 MB
- Lang
- en
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.