Chasing dirt : the American pursuit of cleanliness /
Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--Perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies, barnyard animals, dust, and dirt; clothes were seldom washed; men hardly...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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