Smell and History: A Reader
- ISBN-10
- 1946684678
- ISBN-13
- 9781946684677
- Category
- Odors
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Author
- Mark Michael Smith
Description
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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