Jonathan Reinarz

Broschiertes Buch

Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell

Beschreibung

Offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, this book shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.

Autor

Jonathan Reinarz is a professor of the history of medicine and Director at the History of Medicine Unit at the School of Medicine, University of Birmingham (U.K.). He is author of A History of the Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Sensory History
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780252079795
• ISBN-10: 0252079795
• Artikelnr.: 40477205