Awaiting the Heavenly Country
Subtitle: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801437618
Subjects: Death & Dying; United States - Civil War; History; History - Military / War; 19th century; Death; Social aspects; United States; War and society; History: American
Description: "In Awaiting the Heavenly Country, Mark S. Schantz argues that American attitudes and ideas about death helped facilitate the war's tremendous carnage."-inside jacket.