Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America by Melanie A. Kiechle

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Melanie A. Kiechle with Paul S. Sutter

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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 challeng...

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