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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 gendered dimensions of suicide in the South during the long Civil War Era. |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2018). |
| Subject |
Suicide -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Suicide -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects.
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
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Suicide -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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Suicide -- Aspect social -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Aspect psychologique.
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États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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HISTORY -- Military -- United States.
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Psychological aspects
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Social conditions
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Suicide
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Suicide -- Social aspects
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Southern States
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9RxkMwD8h64CPrTGb |
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1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sommerville, Diane Miller. Aberration of mind. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018005196 |
| ISBN |
9781469643571 (electronic bk.) |
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146964357X (electronic bk.) |
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9781469643588 (electronic bk.) |
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1469643588 (electronic bk.) |
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9781469643564 |
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1469643561 |
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9781469643304 |
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1469643308 |
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