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Honoring the Civil War dead : commemoration and the problem of reconciliation /

By the end of the Civil War, fatalities from that conflict had far exceeded previous American experience, devastating families and communities alike. As John Neff shows, commemorating the 620,000 lives lost proved to be a persistent obstacle to the hard work of reuniting the nation, as every memoria...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neff, John R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2005.
Colección:Modern war studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:By the end of the Civil War, fatalities from that conflict had far exceeded previous American experience, devastating families and communities alike. As John Neff shows, commemorating the 620,000 lives lost proved to be a persistent obstacle to the hard work of reuniting the nation, as every memorial observation compelled painful recollections of the war. Neff contends that the significance of the Civil War dead has been largely overlooked and that the literature on the war has so far failed to note how commemorations of the dead provide a means for both expressing lingering animosities and dis.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315) and index.
ISBN:9780700623440
0700623442