| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Form |
Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Subject |
Hygiene -- Juvenile literature.
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Baths -- Juvenile literature.
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Hygiene. (OCoLC)fst00965349
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Hygiene.
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| Added Author |
Mazille, Capucine, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Ashenburg, Katherine, author. All the dirt on getting clean. (CaOONL)20169002365 |
| ISBN |
9781554517909 (bound) |
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1554517907 (bound) |
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9781554517893 (paperback) |
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1554517893 (paperback) |
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