Race, Ethnicity, and Disability - Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America

Informationen zum Autor Larry M. Logue is Professor of History and Political Science at Mississippi College. He won the Francis and Emily Chipman First-Book Prize for A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah and is the author of To Appomattox and Beyond: The Civil War Soldier in War and Peace and co-editor of The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader and The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader. Peter Blanck is a University Professor at Syracuse University and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI). He is a trustee of YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities Network and is Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC). Blanck's most recent book is Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy (with Hill, Siegal and Waterstone). Klappentext This book focuses on the post-Civil War experience of African Americans and immigrants, investigating their decision to seek government assistance and assessing their resulting treatment. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the post-Civil War experience of African Americans and immigrants! investigating their decision to seek government assistance and assessing their resulting treatment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The winding path of the self and the other; 2. The moral economy of veterans' benefits; 3. African-American veterans and the pension system; 4. Pensions for foreign-born veterans; 5. 'A more infamous gang of cut-throats never lived'; 6. Havens of last resort; 7. Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Blanck, Blanck Peter, Larry M. Logue, Larry M. Blanck Logue
• Assisted by: Thornburgh Dick (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107610583
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61058-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Cambridge Disability Law and P; Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Pensions, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Military / Veterans, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, Disability: social aspects, History of the Americas, Military veterans