Medicine, science, and making race in Civil War America /
"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolde...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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| Summary: | "Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469672687 1469672685 9781469672694 1469672693 |