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Book We Shall Be No More

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Bell
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-20
  • ISBN : 0674064798
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book We Shall Be No More written by Richard Bell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip. Salacious novelists and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers and justice officials rushed to thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicides as testimony to both the ravages of the peculiar institution and the humanity of its victims. Struggling to create a viable political community out of extraordinary national turmoil, these interest groups invoked self-murder as a means to confront the most consequential questions facing the newly united states: What is the appropriate balance between individual liberty and social order? Who owns the self? And how far should the control of the state (or the church, or a husband, or a master) extend over the individual?With visceral prose and an abundance of evocative primary sources, Richard Bell lays bare the ways in which self-destruction in early America was perceived as a transgressive challenge to embodied authority, a portent of both danger and possibility. His unique study of suicide between the Revolution and Reconstruction uncovers what was at stake-personally and politically-in the nation's fraught first decades.

Book Review of The Serpent Uncoiled

Download or read book Review of The Serpent Uncoiled written by J. Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Universalism in America

Download or read book Universalism in America written by Richard Eddy and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of the Life and Writings of M  Hale Smith

Download or read book Review of the Life and Writings of M Hale Smith written by Lewis Crebasa Browne and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Baptist Review

Download or read book The Western Baptist Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baptist Missionary Magazine

Download or read book The Baptist Missionary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Baptist Almanac

Download or read book The American Baptist Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Baptist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book The American Baptist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baptist Almanac

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  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book The Baptist Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Campaign of General Scott  in the Valley of Mexico

Download or read book The Campaign of General Scott in the Valley of Mexico written by Raphael Semmes and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record

Download or read book The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the American Baptist Publication Society

Download or read book History of the American Baptist Publication Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri

Download or read book Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri written by Dick Steward and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early-nineteenth-century Missouri, the duel was a rite of passage for many young gentlemen seeking prestige and power. In time, however, social groups outside the ruling class engaged in a variety of violent acts and symbolic challenges under the rubric of the code duello. In Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri, Dick Steward takes an in-depth look at the evolution of dueling, tracing the origins, course, consequences, and ultimate demise of one of the most deadly art forms in Missouri history. By focusing on the history of dueling in Missouri, Steward details an important part of our culture and the long-reaching impact this form of violence has played in our society.

Book The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years  as Seen in Its Literature

Download or read book The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years as Seen in Its Literature written by Henry Martyn Dexter and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Download or read book A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life written by William Rounseville Alger and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Destiny of the Soul

Download or read book The Destiny of the Soul written by William Rounseville Alger and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: