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This Republic of Suffering

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

E-bok

Engelska, 2008

128 kr

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More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today''s population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War''s most fundamental and widely shared reality.

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Necessary Trouble

Growing Up at Midcentury

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

323 kr

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Necessary Trouble

Growing Up at Midcentury

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

E-bok

Engelska, 2023

185 kr

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions—not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives.A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted” and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Drew forged a path of her own—one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in.Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today.Includes black-and-white images

This Republic of Suffering

Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

244 kr

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Ideology of Slavery

Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Häftad, Engelska, 1981

333 kr

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In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and students of the antebellum South. The Ideology of Slavery includes excerpts by Thomas R. Dew, founder of a new phase of proslavery militancy; William Harper and James Henry Hammond, representatives of the proslavery mainstream; Thornton Stringfellow, the most prominent biblical defender of the peculiar institution; Henry Hughes and Josiah Nott, who brought would-be scientism to the argument; and George Fitzhugh, the most extreme of proslavery writers.The works in this collection portray the development, mature essence, and ultimate fragmentation of the proslavery argument during the era of its greatest importance in the American South. Drew Faust provides a short introduction to each selection, giving information about the author and an account of the origin and publication of the document itself. Faust's introduction to the anthology traces the early historical treatment of proslavery thought and examines the recent resurgence of interest in the ideology of the Old South as a crucial component of powerful relations within that society. She notes the intensification of the proslavery argument between 1830 and 1860, when southern proslavery thought became more systematic and self-conscious, taking on the characteristics of a formal ideology with its resulting social movement. From this intensification came the pragmatic tone and inductive mode that the editor sees as a characteristic of southern proslavery writings from the 1830s onward. The selections, introductory comments, and bibliography of secondary works on the proslavery argument will be of value to readers interested in the history of slavery and of nineteenth-century American thought.

James Henry Hammond and the Old South

A Design for Mastery

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Häftad, Engelska, 1985

461 kr

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From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman's troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and partisan of slavery, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and ambition provides a composite portrait of the civilisation in which he flourished.A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust's James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time. Of humble origins, Hammond set out to conquer his society, to make himself a leader and a spokesman for the Old South. Through marriage he acquired a large plantation and many slaves, and then through shrewd management and progressive farming techniques he soon became one of the wealthiest men in South Carolina. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served as governor of his state. A scandal over his personal life forced him to retreat for many years to his plantation, but eventually he returned to public view, winning a seat in the United States Senate that he resigned when South Carolina seceded from the Union.James Henry Hammond's ambition was unquenchable. It consumed his life, directed almost his every move, and ultimately, in its titanic calculation and rigidity, destroyed the man confined within it. Like Faulkner's Thomas Sutpen, Faust suggests, Hammond had a ""design,"" a compulsion to direct every moment of his life toward self-aggrandizement and legitimation. Hammond envisioned himself as the benevolent, paternal, but absolute master of his family and his slaves. But in reality, neither his family, his slaves, nor even his own behavior was completely under his command. Hammond ardently wished to perfect and preserve the southern way of life. But these goals were also beyond his control. At the time of his death it had become clear to him that his world, the world of the Old South, had ended.

Creation of Confederate Nationalism

Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

220 kr

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For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology. In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, Drew Gilpin Faust argues that coming to a fuller understanding of southern thought during the Civil War period offers a valuable refraction of the essential assumptions on which the Old South and the Confederacy were built. She shows the benefits of exploring Confederate nationalism ""as the South's commentary upon itself, as its effort to represent southern culture to the world at large, to history, and perhaps most revealingly, to its own people.

Mothers of Invention

Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

447 kr

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When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compellilng picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. Faust chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once beneficiary and victim of the social order of the Old South.

Mothers of Invention

Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

660 kr

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When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.

Necessary Trouble

Growing Up at Midcentury

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

260 kr

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Esta República del sufrimiento

Morir y matar en una guerra civil

AvDrew Gilpin Faust

E-bok

Spanska, 2023

135 kr

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Durante la Guerra de Secesión de Estados Unidos, más de seiscientos mil soldados perdieron la vida, una carnicería sin precedentes que, en términos actuales, equivaldría a seis millones de personas. La escalofriante escala de mortandad y la devastación fue tal que no solo afectó a la existencia de centenares de miles de individuos, sino que tuvo un impacto profundísimo en la vida y la psique colectiva de la nación. En el monumental y multipremiado Esta República del sufrimiento. Morir y matar en una guerra civil, Drew Gilpin Faust, experta en la Guerra de Secesión y primera presidenta de la Universidad de Harvard, describe cómo una cultura profundamente religiosa como la estadounidense pugnó por tratar de conciliar la idea de matar al prójimo o morir por una causa que no todos compartían con su creencia en un Dios benevolente, cómo madres, padres, hermanos o hijos tuvieron que encajar la pérdida de sus seres queridos y cómo los supervivientes de esta ordalía debieron rehacer y continuar sus vidas. A lo largo de Esta República del sufrimiento. Morir y matar en una guerra civil, escuchamos las voces de los soldados y de sus familias, de estadistas, generales, predicadores, poetas, cirujanos, enfermeras, del Norte y del Sur, que se conjugan para transmitir vívidamente cuál fue la experiencia más fundamental y ampliamente compartida de esta guerra, como lo es de todas: la muerte. Una lectura tan humana como sobrecogedora que desnuda a la guerra de cualquier romanticismo y visibiliza las profundas cicatrices que los conflictos civiles, como lo fue la Guerra de Secesión y como lo han sido tantos otros, dejan en las sociedades.Ganador del John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity en 2018Ganador del Bancroft Prize en 2009Ganador del American History Book Prize 2009 de la New-York Historical SocietyFinalista del Premio Pulitzer de Historia en 2009Finalista del National Book Award en 2008

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Drew Gilpin Faust – författare

This Republic of Suffering

Necessary Trouble

Necessary Trouble

This Republic of Suffering

Ideology of Slavery

James Henry Hammond and the Old South

Creation of Confederate Nationalism

Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention

Necessary Trouble

Esta República del sufrimiento

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