Disabled veterans in history
Gerber, David A., (1944-)

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    Title/Author: Disabled veterans in history/ David A. Gerber, editor ; afterword byJonathan Shay.
    other author: Gerber, David A.,
    Published: Ann Arbor [Mich.] :University of Michigan Press, : c2012,
    Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 384 p.) :ill.
    Notes: "First paperback edition 2012."
    [NT 15003449]: Preface to the enlarged and revised edition : the continuing relevance of the study of disabled veterans -- Introduction : finding disabledveterans 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 : Hollywoodconstructs the disabled Vietnam veteran / Martin F. Norden -- Disabledveterans 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 BushMilitary 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 Germanyafter 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, survivorheroes, and the eclipse of traditional warrior values / Jonathan Shay --Afterword : a challenge to historians -- Contributors.
    Subject: Disabled veterans. -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472028887/Full text available:
    ISBN: 9780472028887 (electronic bk.)
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