The manliest man
Subtitle: Samuel G. Howe and the contours of nineteenth-century American reform
By: James W. Trent Jr
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press; Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781558499591; 9781558499584
Subjects: Philanthropists; Physicians; Biography; Social reformers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: "A respectable, if ordinary boyhood"; title: "Greece! Greece!; title: I thought no land; title: could ever look more sweetly"; title: "The Cadmus of the blind"; title: A phrenologist and a superintendent; title: Private lives, public causes; title: For free soil and free men; title: War, freedmen, and Crete; title: Santo Domingo : the perpetual summer; title: Abbreviations; title: Notes; title: Index.