Böcker av Mark M. Smith

Defines 'sensory history', stresses the importance of historicizing the senses, and considers each sense chapter by chapter. This book examines visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America, sound in nineteenth-century Australia and France, and gender politics and touch in Early Modern Europe and among Native Americans.

From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities

Offers stories of survival and experience, of the tenacity of social justice in the face of a natural disaster, and of how recovery from Camille worked for some but did not work for others.

History has tended to be dominated by visual images, but the past was not silent. These essays explore attempts to access the sounds of the past, called historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. ""Hearing History"" is an introduction to an exciting new field of historical study.