Melanie A Kiechle

Smell Detectives

An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Herausgeber: Sutter, Paul S

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Melanie A. Kiechle is assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780295741932
• ISBN-10: 0295741937
• Artikelnr.: 46960137

Autorenporträt

Melanie A. Kiechle is assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Paul S. Sutter
Acknowledgments
Introduction What's That Smell?
1. The Smells of Sick Cities
2. Navigating by Nose: Common Sense and Responses to Urban Odors
3. Smells like Home: Odors in the Domestic Environment
4. The Stenches of Civil War
5. Smelling Committees and Authority over City Air
6. Learning to Smell Again: Managing the Air between the Civil War and Germ
Theory
7. Visualizing Vapors and Seeing Smells
8. Dirty Cities, Smelly Bodies: City Odors after Germ Theory
Conclusion: If You Smell Something, Say Something