Author: United States. Bureau of the Census 13th Census, 1910
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
Author: Zina Weygand
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080477238X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin HaĆ¼y, the great benefactor of blind people. Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080477238X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin HaĆ¼y, the great benefactor of blind people. Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.
The Blind in the United States, 1910
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census 13th Census, 1910
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Blind in the United States, 1910
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Blind and Deaf-mutes in the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Blind Population of the United States 1910
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Blind Population of the United States, 1920
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Blind in the United States. 1920
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Blind and the Deaf, 1900
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Blind and the Deaf, 1900
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Blind and the Deaf, 1900
Author: USA Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description