04226nam 2200721Ia 450 991095531620332120200520144314.0978067406479906740647989780674068698067406869610.4159/harvard.9780674064799(CKB)2560000000082527(OCoLC)794003563(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568053(SSID)ssj0000659474(PQKBManifestationID)11376799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659474(PQKBWorkID)10696580(PQKB)10112320(MiAaPQ)EBC3301109(DE-B1597)178155(OCoLC)840443332(DE-B1597)9780674064799(Au-PeEL)EBL3301109(CaPaEBR)ebr10568053(Perlego)1147952(EXLCZ)99256000000008252720110523d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWe shall be no more suicide and self-government in the newly United States /Richard Bell1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20121 online resource (345 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674063723 0674063724 Includes bibliographical references (p.[269]-317) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- IndexSuicide 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.Suicide in mass mediaSuicideMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesSuicidePolitical aspectsUnited StatesSuicideSocial aspectsUnited StatesSuicideUnited StatesHistorySuicide in mass media.SuicideMoral and ethical aspectsSuicidePolitical aspectsSuicideSocial aspectsSuicideHistory.362.280973Bell Richard1978-1813226MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955316203321We shall be no more4366135UNINA01745oam 2200481zu 450 991087303320332120241212215145.0(CKB)111055184254638(SSID)ssj0000395095(PQKBManifestationID)12189478(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000395095(PQKBWorkID)10450587(PQKB)10202972(EXLCZ)9911105518425463820160829d2002 uy engtxtccrISIE 2002 : proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics : L'Aquila, Italy, July 8-11[Place of publication not identified]IEEE2002Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780780373693 0780373693 Industrial electronicsAutomationCongressesManufacturing processesCongressesElectrical & Computer EngineeringHILCCEngineering & Applied SciencesHILCCElectrical EngineeringHILCCIndustrial electronicsAutomationManufacturing processesElectrical & Computer EngineeringEngineering & Applied SciencesElectrical Engineering621.381Keisoku Jidō Seigyo Gakkai (Japan),IEEE Industrial Electronics SocietyIEEE International Symposium on Industrial ElectronicsPQKBPROCEEDING9910873033203321ISIE 2002 : proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics : L'Aquila, Italy, July 8-112511787UNINA