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Producing Sense, Consuming Sense, Making Sense: Perils and Prospects for Sensory History
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In an effort to initiate sustained dialogue among historians on how to investigate the history of the sensate, how to present it, and how to go beyond current conventions, this article addressed these issues in an effort.Abstract:
What is \"sensory history,\" why is it important, and what are some of the promises and pitfalls of the \"habit\" of inquiry? This article addresses these issues in an effort to initiate sustained dialogue among historians on how to investigate the history of the sensate, how to present it, and how to go beyond current conventions.read more
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The noisy city : people, streets and work in Germany and Britain, c. 1870-1910
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of everyday street and work life to argue for assessment of the way historians have understood community, space, materiality and identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Germany and Britain is presented.
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Follow your nose? Smell, smelling, and their histories.
TL;DR: There have been important scholarly investigations into the cultural history of olfaction and into historical smellscapes, but those interested in the smells of the past are most likely to find them in popularizing presentations.
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On the matter of forgetting and ‘memory returns’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine individuals' strategies for obscuring if not obliterating memories that are personally traumatic and injurious to well-being, and show how these memories can re-emerge, frequently in an involuntary or unexpected fashion, despite attempts to render them passe.
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
TL;DR: The authors showed how the intelligent analysis of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior, and how the analysis can be applied to the analysis of human behavior.
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The Gutenberg galaxy : the making of typographic man
TL;DR: The reissue of The Gutenberg Galaxy as discussed by the authors reflects the continuing importance of McLuhan's work for contemporary readers, and it has been translated into twelve languages from Japanese to Serbo-Croat.
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Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
Margaret Iversen,Martin Jay +1 more
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The audible past : cultural origins of sound reproduction
TL;DR: The Audible Past as discussed by the authors explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction and explores the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as "sound" and "not sound" in the history of sound.