Smell Detectives is published with the assistance of a grant from the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Endowment, established by the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, members of the Weyerhaeuser family, and Janet and Jack Creighton.
Copyright © 2017 by Melanie A. Kiechle
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University of Washington Press
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kiechle, Melanie A., author.
Title: Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.
Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017] | Series: Weyerhaeuser environmental books | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016048034 | ISBN 9780295741932 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Smell—United States—History—19th century. | Odors—History—19th century. | Smell—Environmental aspects—History—19th century. | Urban health.
Classification: LCC QP458 .K54 2017 | DDC 612.8/6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048034
Portions of chapters 1, 2, and 5 were previously published in Melanie Kiechle, “Navigating by Nose: Fresh Air, Stench Nuisance, and the Urban Environment, 1840–1880,” Journal of Urban History 42, no. 4 (2016): 753–71.
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