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The Old South by Mark M. Smith
RRP: $214.10Booksplease Price: $196.37The Old South is a collection of primary documents and previously published essays introducing students to recent themes found in scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South. The... -
The Old South by Mark M. Smith 9780631219279
RRP: $92.30Booksplease Price: $86.88The Old South is a collection of primary documents and previously published essays introducing students to recent themes found in scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South. The... -
Smell and History: A Reader by Mark M. Smith 9781946684677
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $135.03Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark M. Smith-one of the leading social... -
A Sensory History Manifesto by Mark M. Smith 9780271090177
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $104.50A Sensory History Manifesto is a brief and timely meditation on the state of the field. It invites historians who are unfamiliar with sensory history to adopt some of its insights and practices, and... -
Smell and History: A Reader by Mark M. Smith 9781946684684
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark M. Smith-one of the leading social... -
A Sensory History Manifesto by Mark M. Smith 9780271090184
Booksplease Price: $35.97A Sensory History Manifesto is a brief and timely meditation on the state of the field. It invites historians who are unfamiliar with sensory history to adopt some of its insights and practices, and... -
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith 9780807849828
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $58.55Sound, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern,... -
Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane by Mark M. Smith 9780820337227
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $65.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses by Mark M. Smith 9780807859254
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31This title shows how the five senses shaped southern racial stereotypes.For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses - not just their eyes - to construct... -
Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt by Mark M. Smith 9781570036057
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debate. In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of... -
Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South by Mark M. Smith 9780521571586
Booksplease Price: $91.01Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions... -
Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South by Mark M. Smith 9780807846933
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $58.55Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance... -
Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South by Mark M. Smith 9780521576963
Booksplease Price: $41.41Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions... -
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War by Mark M. Smith 9780199759989
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $106.51Historical 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... -
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War by Dr Mark M Smith 9780190658526
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $30.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190658526Author Dr Mark M SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Sensory History: An Introduction by Mark Smith 9781845204150
Booksplease Price: $62.75This book can be purchased by customers in the US or Canada from the University of California Press.Sensory History introduces a topic that is rapidly becoming of enormous interest to... -
American Behavioral History: An Introduction by Peter N. Stearns 9780814798447
Booksplease Price: $64.64From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new... -
Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage by Karin Bijsterveld
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $52.50We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such "staged sounds" express the changing identities of... -
Early American Republic – A Documentary Reader by SP Adams
RRP: $178.40Booksplease Price: $163.61THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC UNCOVERING THE PAST: DOCUMENTARY READERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY "Selected with imagination and wisdom, these incisive and wide-ranging texts will provide a 'road map' for... -
The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader by Sean Patrick Adams 9781405160988
RRP: $65.00Booksplease Price: $61.87THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC UNCOVERING THE PAST: DOCUMENTARY READERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY "Selected with imagination and wisdom, these incisive and wide-ranging texts will provide a 'road map' for... -
Keywords in Sound by David Novak
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters... -
Keywords in Sound by David Novak 9780822359036
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $139.57In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters... -
The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collections by Constance Classen
Booksplease Price: $62.06Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of... -
The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877 J. William Harris 9780631209645
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $77.95This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose. It examines the major problems and issues... -
The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500–1877 by JW Harris 9780631209638
RRP: $224.60Booksplease Price: $201.12This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose. Examines the major problems and issues... -
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War by James Oakes 9780393351217
RRP: $34.65Booksplease Price: $32.91The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful... -
Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman 9781138276970
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34Everyday Life in Asia offers a range of detailed case studies which present social perspectives on sensory experiences in Asia. Thematically organized around the notions of the experience of space... -
American Behavioral History: An Introduction by Peter N. Stearns 9780814798430
Booksplease Price: $190.20From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new... -
Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 by Max Grivno
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $150.02Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices,... -
Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 by Max Grivno 9780252080470
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices,... -
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor 9780393073713
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $54.85Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships... -
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South Kathleen M. Hilliard (Iowa State University) 9781107046467
Booksplease Price: $180.50This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole'... -
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South by Kathleen M. Hilliard 9781107636644
Booksplease Price: $55.88This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole'... -
Sensory Worlds in Early America by Peter Charles Hoffer 9780801873539
Booksplease Price: $95.24Over the past half-century, historians have greatly enriched our understanding of America's past, broadening their fields of inquiry from such traditional topics as politics and war to include the... -
Sensory Worlds in Early America by Peter Charles Hoffer 9780801883927
Booksplease Price: $63.90Over the past half-century, historians have greatly enriched our understanding of America's past, broadening their fields of inquiry from such traditional topics as politics and war to include the... -
Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood by Robert E Bonner 9780521541770
Booksplease Price: $72.41Mastering America recounts efforts of 'proslavery nationalists' to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission... -
The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War by Joan E. Cashin 9780691091747
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $82.38Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War... -
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter 9780674237452
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $36.31Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Mary Nickliss PrizeWinner of the Willie... -
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.10A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of... -
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $42.80Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award"Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully."-Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement"[One] of the most...