Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

by Melanie A. Kiechle

Other authorsPaul S. Sutter (Foreword)
EPUB, 2017

Publication

University of Washington Press (2017), 346 pages

Notes

CONTENTS
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
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