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Elements of French Deaf Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781944838560, Gallaudet University Press, March 2020
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 8 tables, 2 figures, 46 photos
French Deaf culture is regarded as a major influence on the formation of other Deaf cultures around the world, notably American Deaf culture. In "Elements of French Deaf Heritage", Ulf Hedberg and Harlan Lane document the development of Deaf culture...
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£44,00
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Deaf to the Marrow Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam
ISBN: HB: 9781563686856, Gallaudet University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 photographs, 1 map
In "Deaf to the Marrow", public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986...
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£64,00
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Fighting in the Shadows The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9781563686801, Gallaudet University Press, May 2017
248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 photographs
This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang's groundbreaking study of deaf people's experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, "Fighting in the Shadows" reveals the stories of both ordinary and extraordinary deaf soldie...
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£30,00
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Week the World Heard Gallaudet
ISBN: PB: 9781563684142, Gallaudet University Press, January 2009
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, photos
In 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs, "The Week the World Heard Gallaudet" depicts, day by day, the "Deaf President Now!" Revolution at Gallaudet University as it unfolded March 6-13, 1988. Author Jack Gannon interviewed such main charac...
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£37,50
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Fair Chance in the Race of Life The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History
ISBN: PB: 9781563683954, Gallaudet University Press, December 2008
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 17 photos
Despite its prominence as a world cultural center and a locus of research on deaf culture, history, education, and language for more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has only infrequently been the focal point of historical study. Eminent historia...
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£26,50
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Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: HB: 9781563683671, Gallaudet University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 photos
Since the French Revolution in1789, Deaf French people have struggled to preserve their cultural heritage, to win full civil rights, and to gain access to society through their sign language. Anne T. Quartararo depicts this struggle in her new book "...
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£48,00
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History of Inclusion in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9781563683183, Gallaudet University Press, May 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated for instruction in public schools, professionals...
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£45,00
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Far from Home Memories of World War II and Afterward
ISBN: PB: 9781563683190, Gallaudet University Press, March 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
"She's got no more business there than a pig has with a Bibl". That's what her father said when Mary Herring announced that she would be moving to Washington, DC, in late1942. Recently graduated from the North Carolina School for Black Deaf and Blin...
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£24,00
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Crying Hands Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany
ISBN: PB: 9781563682551, Gallaudet University Press, March 2004
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Horst Biesold's 'Crying Hands' treats a neglected aspect of the Holocaust: the fate of the deaf in Nazi Germany. His book covers a story that has remained almost unknown. In the United States, even in Germany, few are aware that during the Nazi era...
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£26,50
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Deaf President Now! The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University
ISBN: PB: 9781563681523, Gallaudet University Press, July 2003
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Deaf President Now!" reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week in 1988 when the students at Gallaudet University seized the campus and closed it down until their demands were met. To research this probing study, the authors inter...
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£27,50
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