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Ashenburg, Katherine, author.
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Bathing customs -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Hygiene -- Juvenile literature.
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All the dirt : a his...
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All the dirt : a history of getting clean / Katherine Ashenburg ; illustrated by Capucine Mazille.
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Ashenburg, Katherine, author.
Toronto : Annick Press, c2016.
Subjects
Bathing customs -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Hygiene -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781554517893 (paperback)
9781554517909 (hardback)
Description:
108 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Eight myths about "clean" -- Ancient grime: 3000 BCE to 306 CE -- Saints, steam, and soap: 307 to 1550 -- It's a foul, foul world: 1550 to 1715 -- Some like it cold: 1715 to 1800 -- Baths and how to take them: Europe, 1800 to 1900 -- Wet all over at once: North America, 1800 to 1900 -- Soap opera: 1875 to 1960 -- The household shrine: 1960 to the present -- Good microbes, bad microbes: into the future.
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Presents information about personal cleanliness in different historical periods and cultures from around the world, examining the widely varying conceptions of what cleanliness has meant in different times and places.
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
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