THE DIRT ON CLEAN: An Unsanitized History by KATHERINE ASHENBURG - HARDCOVER!

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1st Edition
ISBN
9780865476905
EAN
9780865476905
Book Title
Dirt on Clean : an Unsanitized History
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Length
8.8 in
Publication Year
2007
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.4 in
Author
Katherine Ashenburg
Genre
Religion, History
Topic
Christian Life / General, Social History
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Width
6.2 in
Number of Pages
368 Pages
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
086547690X
ISBN-13
9780865476905
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038760763

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Book Title
Dirt on Clean : an Unsanitized History
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Christian Life / General, Social History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
Author
Katherine Ashenburg
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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LCCN
2007-032334
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
391.6/4
Synopsis
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 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 slightagainst his masculinity? Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in "Clean," her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, "Clean "considers the bizarre prescriptions of history'sdoctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized., 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 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 "Clean", her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, "Clean "considers the bizarre prescriptions of history'sdoctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized., 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 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 Clean , her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, Clean considers the bizarre prescriptions of history'sdoctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized.
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