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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
©2005.
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| Series: | Modern war studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "This mysterious providence" : Americans' initial responses to Civil War death
- "A heroic, eminent death" : the national dimensions of Lincoln's assassination
- "One interminable grave-yard" : northern dominance in the commemoration of the soldier dead
- "Death in a far-off, stranger's land" : southern creation and commemoration
- "Something like a national act" : the uneasy synthesis of American nationalism
- The congregation of the dead.