Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North

by Sarah Handley-Cousins

Book Overview

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them understudied by historians. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah Handley-Cousins expands and complicates our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and encompassing both physical and mental conditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820355186
• ISBN13: 9780820355184
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"