@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674064799, author = {Bell, Richard,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/459688}, title = {We shall be no more suicide and self-government in the newly United States / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Harvard University Press,}, abstract = {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.}, number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674064799}, recid = {459688}, pages = {1 online resource (332 p.) :}, address = {Cambridge, Mass. :}, year = {2012}, }