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Words made flesh nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture

Title
Words made flesh [electronic resource] : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / R.A.R. Edwards.
Author
Edwards, R. A. R.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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Description
1 online resource (vii, 255 p.)
Series Statement
The history of disability
Uniform Title
  • Words made flesh (Online)
  • History of disability series.
Alternative Title
Words made flesh (Online)
Subject
  • Deaf > Education > History > United States > 19th century
  • Deaf culture > United States > History > 19th century
  • Deaf > United States > Social conditions > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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 -- The flight over the Clark School: manualists and oralists confront deafness.
LCCN
2011041545
OCLC
ssj0000665236
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.
Series
The history of disability
History of disability series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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