Rehabilitating Bodies
The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War''s development into a lasting trope that expresses not only altered social, economic, and national relationships but also an emergent self-c...
The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War''s development into a lasting trope that expresses not only altered social, economic, and national relationships but also an emergent self-c...
