A disability history of the United States / Kim E. Nielsen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Revisioning American historyPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2012.Description: xxiii, 216 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0807022020 : HRD
  • 9780807022023
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.40973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV1553 .N54 2012
Contents:
The spirit chooses the body it will occupy : indigenous North America, pre-1492 -- The poor, vicious, and infirm : Colonial communities, 1492-1700 -- The miserable wretches were then thrown into the sea : the late Colonial era, 1700-1776 -- The deviant and the dependent : creating citizens, 1776-1865 -- I am disabled, and must go at something else besides hard labor : the institutionalization of disability, 1865-1890 -- Three generations of imbeciles are enough : the Progressive Era, 1890-1927 -- We don't want tin cups : laying the groundwork, 1927-1968 -- I guess I'm an activist. I think it's just caring : rights and rights denies, 1968- .
Summary: Covers the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-209) and index.

The spirit chooses the body it will occupy : indigenous North America, pre-1492 -- The poor, vicious, and infirm : Colonial communities, 1492-1700 -- The miserable wretches were then thrown into the sea : the late Colonial era, 1700-1776 -- The deviant and the dependent : creating citizens, 1776-1865 -- I am disabled, and must go at something else besides hard labor : the institutionalization of disability, 1865-1890 -- Three generations of imbeciles are enough : the Progressive Era, 1890-1927 -- We don't want tin cups : laying the groundwork, 1927-1968 -- I guess I'm an activist. I think it's just caring : rights and rights denies, 1968- .

Covers the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present.

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