| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lisa A. Long. Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. 332. $49.95.

Lisa A. Long is fascinated by Americans' fascination with the Civil War. The war, Long concludes, is the ground beneath our feet; but it is unstable, shifting and undulating like the mounds of dying soldiers left unburied on the battlefield. Standing on this moving surface can be jarring to the senses and wears on the joints, so each generation attempts to stabilize the terrain by writing its own history. Seeking rehabilitation on the Civil War battlefield, however, is no easy feat, for it is littered with bodies and half-answered questions about antebellum relations of race, gender, and class, questions that prove to be as unsettling for Americans today as they were for our forebears.

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