Medicine, science, and making race in Civil War America / Leslie A. Schwalm.
"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolde...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469672707 9781469672700 1469672715 9781469672717 1469672685 9781469672687 1469672693 9781469672694 |