Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death

Author/Contributor(s):	Schantz, Mark S
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	05/15/2008
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.