Book: Awaiting The Heavenly Country: The Civil War And America's Culture Of Death Asserting that 19th-century attitudes toward death had been firmly in place before the Civil War, Schantz has written a fascinating and chilling narrative of how a society had understood death and had reckoned the magnitude of destruction it had been willing to tolerate. 30 halftones.
Details of Book: Awaiting The Heavenly Country: The Civil War And America's Culture Of Death Book: Awaiting The Heavenly Country: The Civil War And America's Culture Of Death
Author: Mark S. Schantz
ISBN: 080143761X
ISBN-13: 9780801437618
, 978-0801437618
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 2008/05/01
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Number of Pages: 245
Language: English