Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck

Race, Ethnicity, and Disability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781107610583
• ISBN-10: 1107610583
• Artikelnr.: 37460303

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.