About this title: A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, she traces attitudes toward "dirt" through the mid-nineteenth ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780300106183ISBN:0300106181
Description: New. Contends that care of the body is not simply a private matter but an expression of cultural ideals that reflect the fundamental values of a society. This book provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immi... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-01-27
ISBN-13:9780300106183ISBN:0300106181
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