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464 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300171556
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 22 February 2011
Description
In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness "revolution" had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of ...
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464 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300171556
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 22 February 2011
Description
In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness "revolution" had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of ...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings