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We Shall Be No More

Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States

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$49.00 • £42.95 • €44.95

ISBN 9780674063723

Publication Date: 03/20/2012

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344 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

20 halftones

World

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  • Introduction: Alarming Progress
  • 1. Suicide and the State of the Union
  • 2. The Sorrows of Young Readers
  • 3. Saving Sinking Strangers
  • 4. Wounds in the Belly of the State
  • 5. The Threshold of Heaven
  • 6. The Problem of Slave Resistance
  • Conclusion: Martyrs on the Altar of the Nation
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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