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....
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Zusammenfassung: | "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 Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities...filled with new and stronger stinks...were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and "common sense"...the olfactory experiences of common people...on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes."... |
Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | xviii, 331 Seiten Illustrationen |
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adam_text | Foreword by Paul S. Sutter ix Acknowledgments xv introduction: What’s That Smell? 3 one The Smells of Sick Cities two Navigating by Nose: Common Sense and Responses to Urban Odors 53 three Smells like Home: Odors in the Domestic Environment four The Stenches of Civil War 106 five Smelling Committees and Authority over City Air 138 six Learning to Smell Again: Managing the Air between the Civil War and Germ Theory 170 seven Visualizing Vapors and Seeing Smells 198 eight Dirty Cities, Smelly Bodies: City Odors after Germ Theory 233 conclusion: 21 If You Smell Something, Say Something Notes 267 Selected Bibliography 305 Index 323 259 78
How have odors figured in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detec tives follows the nineteenth-century 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 more, arguing that anxious city dwellers attempted to create health ier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. WHAT DID NINETEENTH-CENTURY CITIES SMELL LIKE? Medical theories at the time equated foul odors and overcrowded cities with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced conflicts between complaining citizens and officials in charge of the air, between newly con structed scientific expertise and the people’s “common sense.” Although germ theory would revolutionize medical knowledge and ultimately undo this everyday form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.
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