Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South /

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This book studies the meaning of suicide in the nineteenth-century South and how that meaning changed, if at all, as a result of the Civil War and its aftermath. It looks at the whole South while providing a more thorough examination than previous books of the dynamics of both the racial and gendere...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sommerville, Diane Miller (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Suicide > Social aspects.
Suicide.
Social conditions.
Psychological aspects.
HISTORY > Military > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Suicide > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Suicide > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Suicide > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Suicide > Southern States > History > 19th century.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect psychologique.
Southern States > Social conditions > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers
  • A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront
  • De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved
  • Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation
  • The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South
  • The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South
  • All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide
  • Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.

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