Using sensory history to understand the past
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2014 · Education
Mark M. Smith, author of The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, on the study of sensory history, critical to understanding the true environments of the past. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-smell-of-battle-the-taste-of-siege-9780199759989 Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and author or editor of a dozen books, including Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History and How Race Is Made: Slavery, the Senses, and Segregation. © Oxford University Press
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