This Republic of Suffering

Description:

An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.

subjects: Burial,  Death,  History,  Influence,  Nonfiction,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Burial,  Psychological aspects of Death,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Burial,  Social aspects of Death,  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  Amerikaanse burgeroorlog,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Coping,  Soldaten,  Dood,  Civil War Period (1850-1877),  Large type books,  State & Local,  General,  Death, psychological aspects,  nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2009-01-25,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865),  Tod

Places: United States

Times: 19th century,  Civil War, 1861-1865