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This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people.

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    A Paperback / softback by Douglas C. Baynton

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 22/06/1998
      ISBN13: 9780226039640, 978-0226039640
      ISBN10: 0226039641

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      Book Synopsis
      This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people.

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