Thompson on Sommerville, 'Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South'
Diane Miller Sommerville. Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 448 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4356-4; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4330-4.
Reviewed by Katie Thompson (West Virginia University) Published on H-CivWar (February, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Wilson on Sommerville, 'Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South'
Diane Miller Sommerville. Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 448 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4356-4; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4330-4.
Reviewed by Daniel J. Wilson (Muhlenberg College) Published on H-Disability (March, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Hernandez Berrones on Sloan, 'Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico'
Kathryn A. Sloan. Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico. Violence in Latin American History Series. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xii + 257 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29032-7; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-29031-0.
Reviewed by Jethro Hernandez Berrones (Southwestern University) Published on H-LatAm (February, 2018) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz
Giles on Goeschel, 'Suicide in Nazi Germany'
Christian Goeschel. Suicide in Nazi Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. vii + 247 pp. Bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-953256-8.
Reviewed by Geoffrey J. Giles (University of Florida) Published on H-German (November, 2012) Commissioned by Benita Blessing
Cressy on Houston, 'Punishing the Dead?: Suicide, Lordship, and Community in Britain, 1500-1830'
R. A. Houston. Punishing the Dead?: Suicide, Lordship, and Community in Britain, 1500-1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 397 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-958642-4.
Reviewed by David Cressy Published on H-Albion (January, 2011) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth
Varying Forms of Ambivalence
Schimmel on Grashoff, '"In einem Anfall von Depression...": Selbsttötungen in der DDR'
Udo Grashoff. "In einem Anfall von Depression...": Selbsttötungen in der DDR. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2006. 450 S. EUR 29.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86153-420-4.
Reviewed by Thilo W. Schimmel (Lone Star College, CyFair) Published on H-German (April, 2008)
Suicide and the East German Dictatorship
Cawthon on Watt, 'From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe'
Jeffrey Watt, ed. From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi + 240 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4278-0.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Cawthon (University of Texas at Arlington) Published on H-Law (May, 2006)
Self-Killing, Leniency, and the Law
Sengoopta on Minois, 'History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture'
Georges Minois. History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 387 pp. $35.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-5919-9.
Reviewed by Chandak Sengoopta (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and University College, London, UK) Published on H-Ideas (July, 1999)
