Description |
1 online resource |
Bibliography |
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. |
Note |
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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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. (OCoLC)fst01354086
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Suicide. (OCoLC)fst01137578
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Suicide -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01137605
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Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
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Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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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 book) |
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146964357X (electronic book) |
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9781469643588 (electronic book) |
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1469643588 (electronic book) |
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