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Smell and History - A Reader (Hardcover)
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Smell and History - A Reader (Hardcover)
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Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays
on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling.
With an introduction by Mark M. Smith-one of the leading social and
cultural historians at work today and the preeminent champion in
the United States of the emerging field of sensory history-the
volume introduces to undergraduate and graduate students as well as
to historians of all fields the richness, relevance, and
insightfulness of the olfactory to historical study. Ranging from
antiquity to the present, these ten essays, most of them published
since 2003, consider how olfaction and scent have shaped the
history of medicine, gender, race-making, class formation,
religion, urbanization, colonialism, capitalism, and
industrialization; how habits and practices of smelling informed
ideas about the Enlightenment, modernity, and memory; how smell
shaped perceptions of progress and civilization; and how people
throughout history have used smell as a way to organize categories
and inform worldviews.
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