Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War

by Mark M. Smith

Book Overview

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"