{"product_id":"past-scents-9780252034947","title":"Past Scents","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, this book shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePast Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell\u003c\/i\u003e by Jonathan Reinarz is an ambitious, lucid, and engaging book that brings some order to the ever-expanding academic literature on smelling, odors, and perfumery. . . . It will no doubt be a useful book for researchers and teachers for many years, and will also continue to be a thoughtful reflection on smell history, composed at a time when this subfield of historiography is particularly flourishing.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePast Scents\u003c\/i\u003e neatly summarizes many current historical perspectives on smell.  More importantly it points to a number of other contemporary perspectives we might take as historians and past sensory perspectives, of women and the lower classes to take two examples, that we might better excavate from the archive.\"--\u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book suggests that engagement with the cultural work of smell both in the past and in the present can be richly rewarding. Reinarz's timely survey of historical perspectives on smell will (hopefully) inspire further research that will move us beyond simple binaries of fragrant\/foul and self\/other toward more redolent possibilities.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePast Scents\u003c\/i\u003e will endure as a valuable compendium of smell scholarship.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume is rich in factual detail and benefits from a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective. . . . Reinarz has provided a significant contribution to the history of olfaction.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Soz-Kult\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePast Scents\u003c\/i\u003e makes a timely and welcome addition to the rapidly evolving scholarship on the history of the senses. Through an engaging tour of the field and a comprehensive survey of prior studies, Jonathan Reinarz awakens the reader's senses to the history and power of smell.\"--William A. Cohen, author of \u003ci\u003eEmbodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reinarz's work ambitiously ranges between examples as diverse as fifth century Byzantium and contemporary Columbia, with thematic chapters presenting different prisms for examining the history of smell. . . . Demonstrates that the historiography of smell does not have to justify itself through calling attention to its former absence but can show how smell shaped religious, economic, colonial, gender and urban transformation.\"--\u003ci\u003eSocial History\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400424923479,"sku":"9780252034947","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252034947.jpg?v=1730470650","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/past-scents-9780252034947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}