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The manliest man : Samuel G. Howe and the contours of nineteenth-century American reform / James W. Trent Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trent, James W., Jr., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876.
- Howe, S. G.
- Philanthropists--United States--Biography.
- Philanthropists.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- Physicians--United States--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 325 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A native of Boston and a physician by training, Samuel G.Howe (1801-1876) led a remarkable life.He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children.
- Contents:
- "A respectable, if ordinary boyhood"
- "Greece! Greece!
- I thought no land
- could ever look more sweetly"
- "The Cadmus of the blind"
- A phrenologist and a superintendent
- Private lives, public causes
- For free soil and free men
- War, freedmen, and Crete
- Santo Domingo : the perpetual summer.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-202-X
- OCLC:
- 830023546
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