Living by Inches : the Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons
- Author
- Kutzler, Evan
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (209 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- Dusk : leveling the senses -- Anosmia : the disabled nose -- Bite and be damned! -- Listening through the cacophony -- The thoughts and acts of hungry men.
- Summary
- From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. 'Living by Inches' examines how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience - their five senses.
- Subject(s)
- 1800-1899
- Military prisons—United States—History—19th century
- Prisoners of war—Psychology
- Senses and sensation
- Prisoners of War—history
- American Civil War
- Prisoners of War—psychology
- Military Personnel—history
- Prisons—history
- Sensation
- Prisons militaires—États-Unis—Histoire—19e siècle
- Sens et sensations
- HISTORY—United States—Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Military prisons
- Prisoners of war
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Prisoners and prisons
- United States
- États-Unis—Histoire—1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)—Prisonniers et prisons
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781469653808
146965380X
9781469653778
146965377X
9781469653785 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781469653792 (ebook)
1469653788 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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