Past scents : historical perspectives on smell / Jonathan Reinarz.

In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate env...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Reinarz, Jonathan (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Series:	Studies in sensory history.
Subjects:	Odors > History. Odors > Social aspects. Smell > History. Perfumes > History. Smell. Odors. Perfumes. History.