Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America by Kathleen M. Brown

Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America

Kathleen M. Brown

464 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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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