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Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of Nineteenth ~ Smell Detectives follows the nineteenthcentury Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints medical writings domestic advice and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air and argues that nineteenthcentury city dwellers anxious about the air they breathed attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors

Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of Nineteenth ~ Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of NineteenthCentury Urban America Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Melanie A Kiechle Paul S Sutter on FREE shipping on qualifying offers What did nineteenthcentury cities smell like And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness Smell Detectives follows the

Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of Nineteenth ~ Smell Detectives follows the nineteenthcentury Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints medical writings domestic advice and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air and argues that nineteenthcentury city dwellers anxious about the air they breathed attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors

Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of Nineteenth ~ It will be of interest to environmental historians and students with an interest in urban history the history of health and government regulation To many nineteenthcentury Americans given the prevailing miasma theory foul smells were not just a sign of disease but also a cause of it

Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of Nineteenth ~ An illuminating history of the role of scent in the growth of American cities and environmental consciousness In stock can be backordered Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of NineteenthCentury Urban America quantity

Melanie A Kiechle Smell Detectives An Olfactory History ~ Smell Detectives convincingly establishes the extent to which olfactory concerns shaped the development and experience of nineteenthcentury American urban life In doing so Kiechle provokes questions that extend beyond the scope of her work

Project MUSE Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of ~ Kiechle combines a broad range of sources to show that smell was a form of common sense used by a wide array of urbanites—not only physicians but also health reformers housekeepers chemists businessmen tenement dwellers and city alderman—to register bodily discomfort and the presence of industrial nuisances in nineteenthcentury America 6

Project MUSE Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of ~ Melanie Kiechles Smell Detectives discovers the olfactory history of nineteenth century urban America through a reading of scientific medical and popular understandings of miasma theory and the olfactory components of decaying materials that were believed to cause disease Her environmentalist monograph focuses upon how sanitary professionals arose to articulate olfactory detection as a means to counter the effluvia emanating from the back alleys of the Market Revolution

Smell Detectives University of Washington Press ~ What did nineteenthcentury cities smell like And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness Smell Detectives follows

‘Smell Detectives’ Meet the people who combated the ~ In the countryside people could wander away from bad smells But as more people moved to the cities olfactory assault became a fact of life in 19thcentury urban America