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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the past, present, and future of sensory history.
Trade Review“Mark M. Smith’s masterful command of sensory history is everywhere on display in this timely, insightful manifesto. Small in size but capacious in scope, this agenda-setting examination of the ‘state of the field’ surveys a wide range of historical work on the senses while identifying new directions for future scholarship. Conveying complex ideas with enviable simplicity, A Sensory History Manifesto is both an essential guide to the field and a compelling argument for its transformation.”
—Peter Denney,coeditor of Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700–1850
“A Sensory History Manifesto is an impressively wide-ranging synthesis of some of the key developments in the field, covering the entire globe and all periods from antiquity to the present. It offers many excellent ideas for future interdisciplinary research, including engaging more fully with emerging animal–human interaction studies and with the hard sciences.”
—Tim Lockley,author of Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874
“The field of sensory history is ready for a book like this, and Smith is the historian to write it. It is a model of keen insight and good advice.”
—Andrew J. Rotter American Historical Review
