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viii, 358 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The industrialization of injury: Thomas H. Graham -- "To bind up the nation's wounds": how the disabled veteran became a problem: Arthur Guy Empey -- "The horror for which we are waiting": anxieties of injury in World War I -- The aftermath of battle: Elsie Ferguson in "Hero Land" -- "Thinking ahead of the crippled years": carrying on in an age of normalcy -- Sunday at the hippodrome -- "The cripple ceases to be": the rehabilitation movement in Great War America -- Mobilizing injury -- The sweet bill -- "For the living dead I work and pray": veterans' groups and the benefits of buddyhood -- Forget-me-not day -- "For the mem'ry of warriors wracked with pain": disabled doughboys and American memory: James M. Kirwin -- "What is wrong with this picture?": disabled veterans in interwar peace culture -- Old battles, new wars: Harold Russell -- "The shiny plate of prestige": disabled veterans in the American century: Tammy Duckworth -- Epilogue: Toward a new veteranology. |
| Summary |
"Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal--that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily repair war's damage. When Bagge was awarded his Purple Heart, however, military officials asked him to wear pants to the ceremony, saying that photos of the event should be "soft on the eyes." Defiant, Bagge wore shorts. America has grappled with the questions posed by injured veterans since its founding, and with particular force since the early twentieth century: What are the nation's obligations to those who fight in its name? And when does war's legacy of disability outweigh the nation's interests at home and abroad? In Paying with Their Bodies, John M. Kinder traces the complicated, intertwined histories of war and disability in modern America. Focusing in particular on the decades surrounding World War I, he argues that disabled veterans have long been at the center of two competing visions of American war: one that highlights the relative safety of US military intervention overseas; the other indelibly associating American war with injury, mutilation, and suffering. Kinder brings disabled veterans to the center of the American war story and shows that when we do so, the history of American war over the last century begins to look very different. War can no longer be seen as a discrete experience, easily left behind; rather, its human legacies are felt for decades."--Publisher's description. |
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Disabled veterans -- United States -- History.
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Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- History.
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War and society.
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Disabled veterans. (OCoLC)fst00894659
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Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation.
(OCoLC)fst00894663
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War and society. (OCoLC)fst01170447
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780226210094 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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022621009X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780226210124 (e-book) |
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022621012X (e-book) |
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9780226420714 (paperback) |
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022642071X (paperback) |
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