Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity by Virginia Smith

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

Virginia Smith

457 pages 2007

2 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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In this pioneering book, Virginia Smith combines archeology, psychology, biology, and sociology to reveal how and why standards of cleanliness have come to exist today. Using hundreds of first-hand accounts and sources, Smith bring us from the Neo...

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