Creating a National Home : : Building the Veterans’ Welfare State, 1860–1900 /

Creating a National Home : : Building the Veterans’ Welfare State, 1860–1900 / / Patrick J. Kelly.

For tens of thousands of Union veterans, Patrick Kelly argues, the Civil War never ended. Many Federal soldiers returned to civilian life battling the lifelong effects of combat wounds or wartime disease. Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, war-disabled Union vetera...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Kelly, Patrick J.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1997
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.) :; 7 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. THE LAW OF LOCAL SYMPATHY
  • 2. FROM VOLUNTARISM TO STATISM
  • 3. ESTABLISHING A FEDERAL ENTITLEMENT
  • 4. THE MOTHER REPUBLIC
  • 5. THE NATIONAL HOME AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE STATE
  • NOTES. INDEX
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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