Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South /
This book studies the meaning of suicide in the nineteenth-century South and how that meaning changed, if at all, as a result of the Civil War and its aftermath. It looks at the whole South while providing a more thorough examination than previous books of the dynamics of both the racial and gendere...
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| Format: | Elektronički e-knjiga |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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