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Mark M. Smith

The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege

A Sensory History of the Civil War

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Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege, historian Mark M. Smith considers how all five senses, including sight, shaped the experience of the Civil War and thus its memory, exploring its full sensory impact on everyone from the soldiers on the field to the civilians waiting at home.From the eardrum-shattering barrage of shells announcing the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter; to the stench… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-932262-6
  • EAN: 9780199322626
  • Produktnummer: 17039087
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 21'890 KB
  • Abbildungen: 16 illus.

Über den Autor


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.

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