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Disabled veterans in history /

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Other Authors: Gerber, David A., 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
Edition:Enlarged and rev. ed.
Series:Corporealities.
Subjects:
Disabled veterans.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the enlarged and revised edition : the continuing relevance of the study of disabled veterans
  • 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 of World War II 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 case 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 / Jonathan Shay
  • Afterword : a challenge to historians
  • Contributors.