Title:
All the dirt : a history of getting clean
Author:
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Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Toronto : Annick Press, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
108 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781554517893
Abstract:
Presents information about personal cleanliness in different historical periods and cultures from around the world, examining the widely varying conceptions of what cleanliness has meant in different times and places.
General Note:
Red Cedar Book Award nominee 2017/18.
Contents:
Eight myths about "clean" -- Ancient grime: 3000 BCE to 306 CE -- Saints, steam, and soap: 307 to 1550 -- It's a foul, foul world: 1550 to 1715 -- Some like it cold: 1715 to 1800 -- Baths and how to take them: Europe, 1800 to 1900 -- Wet all over at once: North America, 1800 to 1900 -- Soap opera: 1875 to 1960 -- The household shrine: 1960 to the present -- Good microbes, bad microbes: into the future.
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Language:
English
