Facts and inferences drawn from an inspection of the public baths and wash-houses in this metropolis
Author : Alfred EBSWORTH
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Alfred EBSWORTH
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Joseph R. Skoski
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Peter Ward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0228000629
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.
Author : Michelle Allen-Emerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1000561380
Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0300210221
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details—from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet—this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
Author : Tom Crook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0520964543
When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureacratic state, but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity.
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English literature
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 1946
Category : English literature
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Author : Marilyn T. Williams
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Public baths
ISBN : 0814205372
Williams (history, Pace U.) details the public bath movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries--the origins, proponents, motives, achievements. Take note California--your drought may be permanent. This is a heavily revised thesis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR