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Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America /
"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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: What's That Smell?; ONE The Smells of Sick Cities; TWO Navigating by Nose: Common Sense and Responses to Urban Odors; THREE Smells like Home: Odors in the Domestic Environment; FOUR The Stenches of Civil War; FIVE Smelling Committees and Authority over City Air; SIX Learning to Smell Again: Managing the Air between the Civil War and Germ Theory; SEVEN Visualizing Vapors and Seeing Smells; EIGHT Dirty Cities, Smelly Bodies: City Odors after Germ Theory; CONCLUSION: If You Smell Something, Say Something.