The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History Ashenburg Katherine Paperback
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History Ashenburg Katherine Paperback A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirtThe question of cleanliness is one every age and culture…
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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History Ashenburg Katherine Paperback
A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirtThe question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. 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. 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.
Stop washing? Did Napoleon know something we didn't when he wrote Josephine I will return in five days. And why is the German term Warmduscher--a man who washes in warm or hot water--invariably a slight against his masculinity?
Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in Dirt on Clean, her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time.What could be
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