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Book The Clean Body

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Ward
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2019-11-01
  • ISBN : 0228000629
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book The Clean Body written by Peter Ward and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent – often daily – bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries.

Book Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain  1842 1914

Download or read book Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain 1842 1914 written by Joseph R. Skoski and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain  Part II vol 5

Download or read book Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain Part II vol 5 written by Michelle Allen-Emerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.

Book Dirty Old London

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  • Author : Lee Jackson
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300192053
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Dirty Old London written by Lee Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

Book Governing Systems

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  • Author : Tom Crook
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 0520290356
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Governing Systems written by Tom Crook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook re-examines this key question in the context of Victorian and Edwardian England, long regarded as one of the 'homes' of modern public health. The modernity of modern public health, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of a centralized, bureaucratic and disciplinary State, but in the contested formation and intricate functioning of systems of governing, from the administrative to the technological. Equally, we need to embrace a dialectical understanding of modern governance, one that is rooted in the interaction of multiple levels, agents and times. Theoretically ambitious, but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity"--

Book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books  1881 1900

Download or read book The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books 1881 1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General catalogue of printed books

Download or read book General catalogue of printed books written by British museum. Dept. of printed books and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Baths and Wash houses

Download or read book Public Baths and Wash houses written by Alfred William Stephens Cross and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975

Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library (London) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Baths And Wash houses

Download or read book Public Baths And Wash houses written by Robert Owen Allsop and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book By laws   Regulations for the Management  Use  and Regulation of the Public baths and Wash houses  and Also for Determining the Duties of the Officers and Servants

Download or read book By laws Regulations for the Management Use and Regulation of the Public baths and Wash houses and Also for Determining the Duties of the Officers and Servants written by Commissioners of Public Baths and Wash-Houses and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue  phase 1  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book By laws   Regulations for the Management  Use  and Regulation of the Public baths and Wash houses  and Also for Determining the Duties of the Officers and Servants

Download or read book By laws Regulations for the Management Use and Regulation of the Public baths and Wash houses and Also for Determining the Duties of the Officers and Servants written by Commissioners of Public Baths and Wash-Houses and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: