The dirt on clean : an unsanitized history / Katherine Ashenburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashenburg, Katherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bathing customs.

Hygiene.

Physical Description:

358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : North Point Press, 2007.

Contents:

"But Didn't They Smell?" 1

1 The Social Bath: Greeks and Romans 15

2 Bathed in Christ: 200-1000 49

3 A Steamy Interlude: 1000-1550 73

4 A Passion for Clean Linen: 1550-1750 97

5 The Return of Water: 1750-1815 125

6 Baths and How to Take Them: Europe, 1815-1900 161

7 Wet All Over at Once: America, 1815-1900 199

8 Soap Opera: 1900-1950 229

9 The Household Shrine: 1950 to the Present 263.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf, Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-333) and index.

ISBN:

9780865476905

086547690X

OCLC:

165956708

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