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Disabled veterans in history /
"Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | Enlarged and revised edition. |
| Colección: | Corporealities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : finding disabled veterans in history / David A. Gerber
- Philoctetes in historical context / Martha Edwards
- Heroes and misfits : the troubled social reintegration of disabled veterans in The best years of our lives / David A. Gerber
- Bitterness, rage, and redemption : Hollywood constructs the disabled Vietnam veteran / Martin F. Norden
- Disabled veterans and the state in early modern England / Geoffrey L. Hudson
- "A sacred debt" : veterans and the state in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Isser Woloch
- From individual trauma to national policy : tracking the uses of Civil War veteran medical records / Robert I. Goler and Michael G. Rhode
- Work-therapy and the disabled British soldier in Great Britain in the First World War : the cased of Shepherd's Bush Military Hospital, London / Jeffrey S. Reznick
- "Empty sleeves and wooden pegs" : disabled Confederate veterans in image and reality / R.B. Rosenburg
- Fifty years of pain : the history of Austrian disabled veterans after 1945 / Gregory Weeks
- Disabled Russian War veterans : surviving the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ethel Dunn
- Nomads in blue : disabled veterans and alcohol at the national home / James Marten
- Will to work : disabled veterans in Britain and Germany after the First World War / Deborah Cohen
- Lieutenant John Counsell and the development of medical rehabilitation and disability policy in Canada / Mary Tremblay
- Post-modern American heroism : anti-war war heroes, survivor heroes, and the eclipse of traditional warrior values / David A. Gerber
- Afterword : a challenge to historians / Jonathan Shay.