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Homesickness - Free Medical Books

Book Title: Homesickness
Description: Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of colonists, explorers, pioneers, soldiers, and immigrants who supposedly left home and never looked back. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, medical records, and psychological studies, this wide-ranging book uncovers the profound pain felt by Americans on the move from the country's founding until the present day. Susan Matt shows how colonists in Jamestown longed for and oft...
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Author(s): Susan J. Matt
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Publish Date: 2011-09-08
Book Pages: 360
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 0199913250
Subjects: History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • History / Social History
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