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Author Edwards, R. A. R.

Title Words made flesh [electronic resource] : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / R.A.R. Edwards.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vii, 255 p.
Series History of disability
History of disability series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: a Yale man and a deaf man open a school and create a world -- Manual education: an American beginning -- Learning to be deaf: lessons from the residential school -- The deaf way: living a deaf life -- Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: the first American oralists -- Languages of signs: methodical versus natural.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Deaf -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Deaf culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Deaf -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814722435 (cl : alk. paper)
9780914722434
9780814724033 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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