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Routledge History of Disability in America

Av Laurel Daen, Sarah Handley-Cousins

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The Routledge History of Disability in America brings disability to the center of American history, demonstrating how this lived experience and social category has shaped communities, institutions, politics, and everyday life.Moving chronologically from pre-contact Indigenous societies to the present, the volume explores citizenship, national belonging, law, civil rights, and activism, alongside labor, welfare, war, gender, race, medicine, religion, colonization, language, and class. Three themes unite the collection: the limits of narratives of progress; the enduring presence of ableism; and the resilience of disabled people who have challenged barriers and advocated for themselves and their loved ones. Grounded in social, cultural, and political approaches to physical and mental difference, the book illuminates the central role of disability and disabled people in shaping the American past and present.The Routledge History of Disability in America is a key comprehensive volume that serves the needs of undergraduate and graduate students, instructors, researchers, and scholars in this growing field.
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Laurel Daen is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Her work has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of American History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Technology & Culture, and Journal of Social History.Sarah Handley-Cousins is an associate teaching professor of History at the University at Buffalo, USA. She is the author of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, which received the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the Disability History Association.

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“The Routledge History of Disability in America is not simply disability history—it is U.S. history, full stop. This volume is a must read for scholars, educators, and activists who wish to understand how disability fears and ableism are central to the formation of U.S. culture, politics, and values from the days of early colonization down to the present. In my ideal world, this volume would be assigned reading in every high-school and undergraduate classroom.”Beth Linker, Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania“An expansive reimagining of the American past through the lens of disability. From pre-contact Indigenous societies to contemporary resistance movements, Daen and Handley-Cousins bring together the best of current research to show how shifting forms of ableism and the remarkable resilience of disabled people have been integral to the making of American history.”Jaipreet Virdi, Associate Professor of History, University of Victoria“Research and publication on disability and people with disabilities in American History has exploded in recent decades. In this collection of carefully selected essays, readers will find an excellent sample of the products of this vast expansion of knowledge on events, people, and processes that were too long neglected, but now illuminate with strikingly fresh insights vast areas of the American past.”David Gerber, Distinguished Professor of History and Disability Studies Emeritus, University at Buffalo

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