Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
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Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege, historian Mark M. Smith considers how all five senses, including sight, shaped the experience of the Civil War and thus its memory, exploring its full...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199759987
ISBN13:9780199759989
Release Date:October 2014
Publisher:Oxford Univ PR
Length:210 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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