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 first-century Roman, being clean…
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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 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 Josephine I will return in five days. Stop washing? 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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