Books written by Mark Michael Smith
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Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a pre-modern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a ...
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Listening to Nineteenth-century America
On southern masters as economically modern but politically conservative , see Mark M. Smith , Mastered by the Clock ; Genovese , Slaveholders ' Dilemma . PART 1 1. Huger quoted in Bowman , " Antebellum Planters and Vormärz Junkers ...
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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
On Union knowledge of the Hunley, see Tom Chaffin, The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy (New York: Hill & Wang, 2008), p. 172. 3. Order of Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, U.S. Navy, February 19, 1864, OFUCN, ser. 1, vol. 15, p.
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Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History
If one feels in danger of sensory overload from this growing body of scholarship, Smith's piece is a useful preventive."--Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality "This is a masterful overview.
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Sensory History
Howes , David , " Scent and Sensibility , " Culture , Medicine and Psychiatry 13 ( 1989 ) , pp . 81-89 . Howes , David , " Controlling Textuality : A Call for a Return to the Senses , " Anthropologica 33 ( 1990 ) , pp . 55-73 .
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Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane
Smith offers stories of survival and experience, of the tenacity of social justice in the face of a natural disaster, and of how recovery from Camille worked for some but not others.
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A Sensory History Manifesto
In this way, A Sensory History Manifesto invites scholars to think about how their field needs to evolve if the real interpretive dividends of sensory history are to be realized"--
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Kamgakŭi yŏksa
Kamgakŭi yŏksa
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Hearing History: A Reader
The essays stimulate thinking on key questions: What is aural history? Why has vision tended to triumph over hearing in historical accounts? How might we begin to reclaim the sounds of the past?
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Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt
Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt introduces readers to the documents needed to understand both the revolt and the ongoing discussion among scholars about the legacy of the insurrection.
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Hearing History: A Reader
Mark Smith's " Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America " should lead historians to pay more explicit attention to what might be called the " grand narrative " of nineteenth - century American history .
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Listening to Nineteenth-century America
Listening to Nineteenth-century America
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The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas
A series of penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World, written by a team of leading international contributors.
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Smell and History: A Reader
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, ...
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Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
This is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South.