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Offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, this book shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.

"Expanded, revised and translated edition of Goauter le monde: une histoire culturelle du goaut aa l'aepoque moderne, published in French by PIE Peter Lang, 2013"--Title page verso.

An extensive historical exploration of touch which lies at the heart of our experience of the world