| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History. By Mark M. Smith. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. x, 180 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25495-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25496-1.)

Sensing the Past is a wonderful entry into the possibilities unleashed by bringing the senses into historical research. Mark M. Smith describes his book as introductory, as a primer in sensory history, but it is also exploratory, charting new sensory territory. Others have explored this territory, as we learn through Smith's generous and helpful review of the historical literature on seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching, with vivid examples of the modernizing effects of urban street lighting, the traditional soundscapes of urban bells, the smell of race, the taste of class, and the politics and intimacy of touch. Still, this attention to the senses seems fresh and new.

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