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Schantz 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50404-0 311 $a0-8014-3761-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. "Emblems of Mortality" -- $tChapter Two. "The Heavenly Country" -- $tChapter Three. "Melancholy Pleasure" -- $tChapter Four. "A Voice from the Ruins" -- $tChapter Five. "Better to Die Free, Than to Live Slaves" -- $tChapter Six. "The Court of Death" -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $a"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They believed that a heavenly eternity of transcendent beauty awaited them beyond the grave. They knew that their heroic achievements would be cherished forever by posterity. They grasped that death itself might be seen as artistically fascinating and even beautiful."-from Awaiting the Heavenly CountryHow much loss can a nation bear? An America in which 620,000 men die at each other's hands in a war at home is almost inconceivable to us now, yet in 1861 American mothers proudly watched their sons, husbands, and fathers go off to war, knowing they would likely be killed. Today, the death of a soldier in Iraq can become headline news; during the Civil War, sometimes families did not learn of their loved ones' deaths until long after the fact. Did antebellum Americans hold their lives so lightly, or was death so familiar to them that it did not bear avoiding?In Awaiting the Heavenly Country, Mark S. Schantz argues that American attitudes and ideas about death helped facilitate the war's tremendous carnage. Asserting that nineteenth-century attitudes toward death were firmly in place before the war began rather than arising from a sense of resignation after the losses became apparent, Schantz has written a fascinating and chilling narrative of how a society understood death and reckoned the magnitude of destruction it was willing to tolerate.Schantz addresses topics such as the pervasiveness of death in the culture of antebellum America; theological discourse and debate on the nature of heaven and the afterlife; the rural cemetery movement and the inheritance of the Greek revival; death as a major topic in American poetry; African American notions of death, slavery, and citizenship; and a treatment of the art of death-including memorial lithographs, postmortem photography and Rembrandt Peale's major exhibition painting The Court of Death. 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Searle 210 $aChichester ;$aMalden, MA $cBlackwell$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (649 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to contemporary economics ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-9215-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Banking on Housing; Editorial; Chapter 2 Housing and Mortgage Markets: An OECD Perspective; Chapter 3 Is Housing Wealth an ""ATM""?: International Trends; Chapter 4 Housing Wealth Effects and Course of the US Economy: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications; Chapter 5 The Rise in Home Prices and Household Debt in the UK: Potential Causes and Implications; Chapter 6 Housing Wealth and Mortgage Debt in Australia 327 $aChapter 7 A Survey of Housing Equity Withdrawal and Injection in AustraliaChapter 8 What do we Know about Equity Withdrawal by Households in New Zealand?; Chapter 9 What Happened to the Housing System?; Part II Housing Wealth As A Financial Buffer; Editorial; Chapter 10 Trading on Housing Wealth: Political Risk in an Aging Society; Chapter 11 Housing Equity Withdrawal and Retirement: Evidence from the Household, Income, and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA); Chapter 12 Housing Market, Wealth, and ""Self-Insurance"" in Spain 327 $aChapter 13 Housing Wealth: A Safety Net of Last Resort? Findings from a European StudyChapter 14 ""Pots of Gold"": Housing Wealth and Economic Wellbeing in Australia; Chapter 15 Housing Wealth as Insurance: Insights from the UK; Chapter 16 Housing to Manage Debt and Family Care in the USA; Chapter 17 The Subprime State of Race; Chapter 18 The Housing Finance Revolution; Part III Mitigating Housing Risks; Editorial; Chapter 19 How Housing Busts End: Home Prices, User Cost, and Rigidities During Down Cycles 327 $aChapter 20 Is there a Role for Shared Equity Products in Twenty-First Century Housing? 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