The Dirt On Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg

The Dirt On Clean: An Unsanitized History

Katherine Ashenburg

358 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil W...

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