We Shall Be No More - Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States - Richard Bell - Hardback Bog - Harvard University Press - 2012 - Engelsk
Brand: Harvard University Press
Description
Though suicide is an individual act, Richard Bell reveals its broad social implications in early America. From Revolution to Reconstruction, everyone—parents, newspapermen, ministers and abolitionists alike—debated the meaning of suicide as a portent of danger or of possibility in a new nation struggling to define itself and its power.