2014, ISBN: 9780375404047

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xviii, 346, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. Contents include: Preface:… Meer...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xviii, 346, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. Contents include: Preface: The Work of Death and Chapter 1--Dying: "To Lay Down My Life"; Chapter 2: Killing: "The Harder Courage"; Chapter 3: Burying: " New Lessons Caring for the Dead"; Chapter 4: Naming: "The Significant Word UNKNOWN"; Chapter 5: Realizing; Civilians and the Work of Mourning; Chapter 6: Believing and Doubting: ''What Means this Carnage?"; Chapter 7: Accounting: "Our Obligations to the Dead"; Chapter 8: Numbering: "How Many? How Many"; and Epilogue: Surviving. Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian and was the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role. In 2014, she was ranked by Forbes as the 33rd most powerful woman in the world. In 1975, Faust joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty as assistant professor of American civilization. A specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War, Faust rose to become Walter Annenberg Professor of History. She is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, for which she won both the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1997. Her works include This Republic of Suffering which was an acclaimed exploration of how the United States' understanding of death was shaped by the losses during the Civil War. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. 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 Republic of Suffering explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. The eminent historian Drew Gilpin 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, pondered who should die and under what circumstances, and reconceived its understanding of life after death. Faust details the logistical challenges involved when thousands were left dead, many with their identities unknown, on the fields of places like Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. She chronicles the efforts to identify, reclaim, preserve, and bury battlefield dead, the resulting rise of undertaking as a profession, the first widespread use of embalming, the gradual emergence of military graves registration procedures, the development of a federal system of national cemeteries for Union dead, and the creation of private cemeteries in the South that contributed to the cult of the Lost Cause. She shows, too, how the war victimized civilians through violence that extended beyond battlefields from disease, displacement, hardships, shortages, emotional wounds, and conflicts connected to the disintegration of slavery. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, and nurses, of northerners and southerners, slaveholders and freed people, of the most exalted and the most humble are brought together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. Were he alive today, This Republic of Suffering would compel Walt Whitman to abandon his certainty that the real war will never get in the books., Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, 3<

2008, ISBN: 9780375404047

[ED: Halbleinen], [PU: Alfred A. Knopf], Original-Schutzumschlag mit kleineren Knickspuren, kleine Druckstelle am Buchrücken unten, kleine Läsur an der Unterkante des vorderen Buchdeckels… Meer...

[ED: Halbleinen], [PU: Alfred A. Knopf], Original-Schutzumschlag mit kleineren Knickspuren, kleine Druckstelle am Buchrücken unten, kleine Läsur an der Unterkante des vorderen Buchdeckels, keine Anstreichungen oder Notizen, alles in allem ordentliches/gutes Exemplar. Aus dem Inhalt: - Preface. The Work of Death. - 1. Dying. "To Lay Down My Life". - 2. Killing. "The Harder Courage". - 3. Burying. "The Lessons Caring for the Dead". - 4. Naming. "The Significant Word Unknown". - 5. Realizing. Civilians and the Work of Mourning. - 6. Believing and Doubting. "What Means this Carnage?" - 7. Accounting. "Our Obligations to the Dead". - 8. Numbering. "How Many? How Many?" - Epilogue. Surviving. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche Abbildungen im Text. Wikipedia über die Verfasserin: Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian, college administrator and the President of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university and is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Faust is also Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard. Faust was born Catharine Drew Gilpin in New York City and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. She is the daughter of Catharine Ginna (née Mellick) and McGhee Tyson Gilpin, a Princeton graduate and breeder of thoroughbred horses. Her paternal great-grandfather, Lawrence Tyson, was a U.S. Senator from Tennessee during the 1920s. Faust is a descendant of the Puritan divine Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton. She graduated from Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts, in 1964. Many of her male relatives, including her father and two of her brothers, went to Princeton University. However, Princeton did not accept female students in the 1960s, so Faust went to Bryn Mawr College instead. She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. She graduated magna cum laude with honors in history. She received her MA in 1971 and her Ph.D. in American Civilization with thesis, titled A Sacred Circle: The Social Role of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. In the same year, she joined the Penn faculty as assistant professor of American civilization. Based on her research and teaching, she rose to Walter Annenberg Professor of History. A specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War, Faust developed new perspectives in intellectual history of the antebellum South and in the changing roles of women during the Civil War. She is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996), for which she won both the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1997 and James Henry Hammond and Old South, a biography of James Henry Hammond, who was Governor of South Carolina from 1842-1844. Faust’s most recent book, This Republic of Suffering (2008), was a critically acclaimed examination of how America’s understanding of death was shaped by the high losses during the Civil War. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award (see awards below). In 2001, Faust was appointed the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the successor to Radcliffe Colle, DE, [SC: 3.00], deutliche Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, circa 16,5 cm x 24 cm, XVIII, 346, [GW: 728g], [PU: New York], 1, Auflage, Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand, [CT: Geschichte/Politik / 19. Jhdt.]<

2008, ISBN: 9780375404047

[ED: Halbleinen], [PU: Alfred A. Knopf], Original-Schutzumschlag mit kleineren Knickspuren, kleine Druckstelle am Buchrücken unten, kleine Läsur an der Unterkante des vorderen Buchdeckels… Meer...

[ED: Halbleinen], [PU: Alfred A. Knopf], Original-Schutzumschlag mit kleineren Knickspuren, kleine Druckstelle am Buchrücken unten, kleine Läsur an der Unterkante des vorderen Buchdeckels, keine Anstreichungen oder Notizen, alles in allem ordentliches/gutes Exemplar. Aus dem Inhalt: - Preface. The Work of Death. - 1. Dying. "To Lay Down My Life". - 2. Killing. "The Harder Courage". - 3. Burying. "The Lessons Caring for the Dead". - 4. Naming. "The Significant Word Unknown". - 5. Realizing. Civilians and the Work of Mourning. - 6. Believing and Doubting. "What Means this Carnage?" - 7. Accounting. "Our Obligations to the Dead". - 8. Numbering. "How Many? How Many?" - Epilogue. Surviving. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche Abbildungen im Text. Wikipedia über die Verfasserin: Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian, college administrator and the President of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university and is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Faust is also Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard. Faust was born Catharine Drew Gilpin in New York City and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. She is the daughter of Catharine Ginna (née Mellick) and McGhee Tyson Gilpin, a Princeton graduate and breeder of thoroughbred horses. Her paternal great-grandfather, Lawrence Tyson, was a U.S. Senator from Tennessee during the 1920s. Faust is a descendant of the Puritan divine Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton. She graduated from Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts, in 1964. Many of her male relatives, including her father and two of her brothers, went to Princeton University. However, Princeton did not accept female students in the 1960s, so Faust went to Bryn Mawr College instead. She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. She graduated magna cum laude with honors in history. She received her MA in 1971 and her Ph.D. in American Civilization with thesis, titled A Sacred Circle: The Social Role of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. In the same year, she joined the Penn faculty as assistant professor of American civilization. Based on her research and teaching, she rose to Walter Annenberg Professor of History. A specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War, Faust developed new perspectives in intellectual history of the antebellum South and in the changing roles of women during the Civil War. She is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996), for which she won both the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1997 and James Henry Hammond and Old South, a biography of James Henry Hammond, who was Governor of South Carolina from 1842-1844. Faust’s most recent book, This Republic of Suffering (2008), was a critically acclaimed examination of how America’s understanding of death was shaped by the high losses during the Civil War. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award (see awards below). In 2001, Faust was appointed the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the successor to Radcliffe Colle, DE, [SC: 2.80], deutliche Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, circa 16,5 cm x 24 cm, XVIII, 346, [GW: 728g], [PU: New York], 1, Auflage, Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand, [CT: Geschichte/Politik / 19. Jhdt.]<

2008, ISBN: 037540404X

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