The dirt on clean : an unsanitized history / Katherine Ashenburg.
The dirt on clean : an unsanitized history / Katherine Ashenburg.
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New York : North Point Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N391.64/5
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English
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358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
"But Didn't They Smell?" -- 1. The Social Bath: Greeks and Romans -- 2. Bathed in Christ: 200-1000 -- 3. A Steamy Interlude: 1000-1550 -- 4. A Passion for Clean Linen: 1550-1750 -- 5. The Return of Water: 1750-1815 -- 6. Baths and How to Take Them: Europe, 1815-1900 -- 7. Wet All Over at Once: Ameri...
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New York : North Point Press, 2007.
Edition
1st American ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2007.
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"For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day and using perfume to obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else's, but...
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The dirt on clean : an unsanitized history / Katherine Ashenburg.
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"Originally published in 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf, Canada"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-333) and index.
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N391.64/5
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74VK3G3vVx2b
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086547690X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780865476905 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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391.64
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991023833349702626
