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Title: Noise, smell and other nuisances : Valletta c.1880s – c.1930
Authors: Refalo, Michael
Keywords: Valletta (Malta) -- History -- 20th century
Valletta (Malta) -- History -- 19th century
Noise control -- Valletta -- Malta
Social history -- Malta -- 19th century
Social history -- Malta -- 20th century
Smell -- Social aspects
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: University of Malta. Junior College
Citation: Refalo, M. (2016). Noise, smell and other nuisances : Valletta c.1880s – c.1930. Symposia Melitensia, Vol. 12, p. 161-176
Abstract: During the last thirty years or so, some historians have turned their attention to the human senses other than sight. This paper discusses briefly the noises and smells pervading Valletta during the final years of the 19th and the opening decades of the 20th century. In doing so, it stresses the importance of those who caused such nuisances and those who complained against them. It results that the growing sense of intolerance towards such nuisances was class-bound. The final part proposes to envision these nuisances as an element of what Ranajit Guha calls ‘the politics of the people’.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/14910
ISSN: 1812-7509
Appears in Collections:SymMel, 2016, Volume 12
SymMel, 2016, Volume 12

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