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ISBN: 0300171552

ISBN13: 9780300171556

Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America

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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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