Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America

by Kathleen M. Brown and Kathleen Brown

Book Overview

In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness "revolution" had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify?

"It is the author's ability to appreciate and represent the almost tactile circumstantiality of life that makes Foul Bodies so special--and so readable."--Charles E. Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300171552
• ISBN13: 9780300171556
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"