Clean (eBook)

An Unsanitised History of Washing

Katherine Ashenburg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-84765-336-9 (ISBN)

Infos

'I return to Paris in five days. Stop washing.' So wrote Napoleon to Josephine in an age when body odour was considered an aphrodisiac. In stark contrast, the Romans used to bath for hours each day. Ashenburg's investigation of history's ambivalence towards personal hygiene takes her through plague-ridden streets, hospitals and battlefields. From the bizarre prescriptions of doctors to the eccentricities of famous bathers, she presents us with all the twists and turns that have led us to our own, arbitrary notion of 'clean'.

Rezensionen

An entertaining book that really does belong in the bathroom

Thought provoking, charming and great fodder for dinner-party chat, this is a memorable read

[T]errific history of personal hygiene ... A wonderfully interesting and amusing book

Here is a splendid history of the amazingly different attitudes that various civilisations have taken towards water

Awash with smart allusions...absorbing on Roman water-heating or Victorian soap, this finely-illustrated survey turns on a foaming jacuzzi for the mind

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Hygiene / Mikrobiologie / Virologie
• ISBN-10: 1-84765-336-7 / 1847653367
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-336-9 / 9781847653369