The Manliest Man : Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform /

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A native of Boston and a physician by training, Samuel G. Howe (1801-1876) led a remarkable life. He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Trent, James W., Jr., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Howe, S. G. > (Samuel Gridley), > 1801-1876.
Social reformers.
Physicians.
Philanthropists.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Reformateurs sociaux > États-Unis > Biographies.
Medecins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Philanthropists > United States > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Physicians > United States > Biography.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
United States > History > 19th century.
Biographies.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "A respectable, if ordinary boyhood"
  • "Greece! Greece!
  • I thought no land
  • could ever look more sweetly"
  • "The Cadmus of the blind"
  • A phrenologist and a superintendent
  • Private lives, public causes
  • For free soil and free men
  • War, freedmen, and Crete
  • Santo Domingo : the perpetual summer.

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