[PDF.70an] The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

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 | #616377 in Books |  Katherine Ashenburg |  2008-10-28 |  2008-10-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  228.60 x.82 x6.00l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Rub-a-dub-dub. Or not.|By Mr. Joe|“Show me a people’s bathhouses and bathrooms, and I will show you what they desire, what they ignore, sometimes what they fear ‒ and a significant part of who they are.” – Katherine Ashenburg, in the introduction to THE DIRT ON CLEAN

“When the future Louis XIII of France was born, in 1601, the court ph|From Publishers Weekly|According to Ashenburg (The Mourner's Dance), the Western notion of cleanliness is a complex cultural creation that is constantly evolving, from Homer's well-washed Odysseus, who bathes before and after each of his colorful journeys

The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far as to dip your hands in some water. Did Napoleon know something we didn't when he wrote to ...

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