Description |
1 online resource (421 pages) |
Contents |
Abbreviations; Foreword, by Catherine Kudlick; Preface, by Alain Corbin; Introduction; Part I: From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age: A Paradoxical Vision of Blindness and the Blind; 1. The Middle Ages; 2. The Beginning of Modern Times; 3. Groundwork for a History of Blindness in the Classical Age; Part II: The Eighteenth Century: A Different Look at the Blind; 4. Sensationalism and Sensorial Impairments; 5. Philanthropy and the Education of the Sensorially Impaired; 6. The Move of the Quinze-Vingts and the Annuity from the Public Treasury |
Summary |
A history of perceptions of the blind and of their integration or lack thereof in French society, this book introduces us to a host of fictional and real individuals and paints a moving picture of their advances and disappointments, concluding with the triumphant invention of Louis Braille |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Blind -- France -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY / Europe / France
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Blind
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France
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Genre/Form |
ebrary, Inc
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cohen, Emily-Jane
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ISBN |
9780804772389 |
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080477238X |
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