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This Republic of Suffering, Death and the American Civil War

This Republic of Suffering, Death and the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust

  • HISTORY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

This fascinating history explores how the unprecedented large-scale slaughter of the Civil War changed America's cultural attitudes towards death, from material changes such as the rise of professional undertaking to shifting spiritual views.  (USA179, $16.95)


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