An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
by
Melanie A. Kiechle, Paul S. Sutter
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie...