Bøger af Mark M. Smith

Defines 'sensory history', stresses the importance of historicizing the senses, and considers each sense chapter by chapter. This book examines visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America, sound in nineteenth-century Australia and France, and gender politics and touch in Early Modern Europe and among Native Americans.

From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities

Offers stories of survival and experience, of the tenacity of social justice in the face of a natural disaster, and of how recovery from Camille worked for some but did not work for others.

Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, this work contends that to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War, we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and silences they heard.

Explores the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Drawing on a range of sources, this text demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s, with varying degrees of success.

History has tended to be dominated by visual images, but the past was not silent. These essays explore attempts to access the sounds of the past, called historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. ""Hearing History"" is an introduction to an exciting new field of historical study.

Shows how whites of various classes used the artificial binary of ""black"" and ""white"" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation.