Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199532087 (0199532087)
Publish date: August 1st 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 457
Edition language: English
I found this an interesting read about cleaning and the attitude to cleaning over the centuries. It's not very deep and doesn't make judgements about a lot of the practices, but does point out the irony that we're perhaps not doing ourselves any favours with the level of clean we expect today. It'...
3.5 stars. A touch too dramatic at times and I wasn't fond of the pacing in the second half of the book.
12 years ago
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