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The Clean Body: A Modern History by [Peter Ward]

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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.

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"Peter Ward skillfully distills wide-ranging academic research into a coherent and entertaining narrative pageant of Western European and North American concepts about and mechanics of personal cleanliness." Choice --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Peter Ward is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and the author of several books on the social history of Canada and the history of population health. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Y5Z7GT9
Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGill-Queen's University Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3671 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 327 pages

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SeaSage

Please re-release this book!

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To the publishers: please re-release at an affordable price. Heard him onNational Public Radio (On Point, 5\11\20) and he was great. Fascinating stories, especially Louis XIV!

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Gus

Rather expensive

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Very good book, but too expensive.

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Narrow view of a wide subject

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The author's almost claustrophobic focus on the Anglophone world makes this a narrow and ultimately inadequate overview of personal hygiene through the ages. Scenes preserved in prints such the one by Dürer which show men at the public bath in 16th-Century Nürnberg are ignored. Hygienic practices everywhere else in the non-Anglophone New World are not discussed.

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