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Dirt Clean

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Author : Judith Amanthis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11

Dirt Clean written by Judith Amanthis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11 with categories.

The Dirt On Clean

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Author : Katherine Ashenburg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-05-21

The Dirt On Clean written by Katherine Ashenburg and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-21 with History categories.

For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else’s, but never immersing himself in – horrors! – water. By the early 1900s, an extraordinary idea took hold in North America – that frequent bathing, perhaps even a daily bath, was advisable. Not since the Roman Empire had people been so clean, and standards became even more extreme as the millennium approached. Now we live in a deodorized world where germophobes shake hands with their elbows and where sales of hand sanitizers, wipes and sprays are skyrocketing. The apparently routine task of taking up soap and water (or not) is Katherine Ashenburg’s starting point for a unique exploration of Western culture, which yields surprising insights into our notions of privacy, health, individuality, religion and sexuality. Ashenburg searches for clean and dirty in plague-ridden streets, medieval steam baths, castles and tenements, and in bathrooms of every description. She reveals the bizarre rescriptions of history’s doctors as well as the hygienic peccadilloes of kings, mistresses, monks and ordinary citizens, and guides us through the twists and turns to our own understanding of clean, which is no more rational than the rest. Filled with amusing anecdotes and quotations from the great bathers of history, The Dirt on Clean takes us on a journey that is by turns intriguing, humorous, startling and not always for the squeamish. Ashenburg’s tour of history’s baths and bathrooms reveals much about our changing and most intimate selves – what we desire, what we ignore, what we fear, and a significant part of who we are.

The Queen Of Clean S Complete Cleaning Guide

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Author : Linda Cobb
language : en
Publisher: Rodale
Release Date : 2002-01-01

The Queen Of Clean S Complete Cleaning Guide written by Linda Cobb and has been published by Rodale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with House & Home categories.

The Dirt On Clean

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Author : Katherine Ashenburg
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2014-04-08

The Dirt On Clean written by Katherine Ashenburg and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with History categories.

A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirt The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far as to dip your hands in some water. Did Napoleon know something we didn't when he wrote Josephine "I will return in five days. Stop washing"? And why is the German term Warmduscher—a man who washes in warm or hot water—invariably a slight against his masculinity? Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in Dirt on Clean, her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, Dirt on Clean considers the bizarre prescriptions of history's doctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized.

Talking Dirt

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Author : Jeff Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 1997

Talking Dirt written by Jeff Campbell and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with House & Home categories.

The bestselling author of Speed Cleaning, Clutter Control, and Spring Cleaning--with combined sales of over one million copies--returns with his Clean Team to answer all your cleaning questions in the ultimate cleaning bible. Everything you ever wanted to know about cleaning but were afraid to ask is expertly answered for you in Talking Dirt, a compilation of the 157 most frequently asked cleaning questions. Get the dirt on: How to remove stains from granite How to clean a leather couch How to get rid of the mildew that builds up in the grout around shower tiles How to dust a dried flower arrangement And 153 other cleaning quandaries! In an easy-to-read Q&A format, organized by room, and based on his years of experience cleaning houses, cleaning guru Jeff Campbell offers no-nonsense advice designed to save you time, energy, and money--and to take the dirty work out of your toughest cleaning problems.

Keeping It Clean

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Author : Anne E. Grimmer
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1992-06

Keeping It Clean written by Anne E. Grimmer and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06 with categories.

Chasing Dirt

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Author : Suellen Hoy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-10

Chasing Dirt written by Suellen Hoy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-10 with History categories.

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 ever shaved or bathed. Yet gradually all this changed, and today, Americans are known worldwide for their obsession with cleanliness--for their sophisticated plumbing, daily bathing, shiny hair and teeth, and spotless clothes. In Chasing Dirt, Suellen Hoy provides a colorful history of this remarkable transformation from "dreadfully dirty" to "cleaner than clean," ranging from the pre-Civil War era to the 1950s, when American's obsession with cleanliness reached its peak. Hoy offers here a fascinating narrative, filled with vivid portraits of the men and especially the women who helped America come clean. She examines the work of early promoters of cleanliness, such as Catharine Beecher and Sylvester Graham; and describes how the Civil War marked a turning point in our attitudes toward cleanliness, discussing the work of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, headed by Frederick Law Olmsted, and revealing how the efforts of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War inspired American women--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and Louisa May Alcott--to volunteer as nurses during the war. We also read of the postwar efforts of George E. Waring, Jr., a sanitary engineer who constructed sewer systems around the nation and who, as head of New York City's street-cleaning department, transformed the city from the nation's dirtiest to the nation's cleanest in three years. Hoy details the efforts to convince African-Americans and immigrants of the importance of cleanliness, examining the efforts of Booker T. Washington (who preached the "gospel of the toothbrush"), Jane Addams at Hull House, and Lillian Wald at the Henry Street Settlement House. Indeed, we see how cleanliness gradually shifted from a way to prevent disease to a way to assimilate, to become American. And as the book enters the modern era, we learn how advertising for soaps, mouth washes, toothpastes, and deodorants in mass-circulation magazines showed working men and women how to cleanse themselves and become part of the increasingly sweatless, odorless, and successful middle class. Shower for success! By illuminating the historical roots of America's shift from "dreadfully dirty" to "squeaky clean," Chasing Dirt adds a new dimension to our understanding of our national culture. And along the way, it provides colorful and often amusing social history as well as insight into what makes Americans the way we are today.

A Philosophy Of Dirt

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Author : Olli Lagerspetz
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2018-02-15

A Philosophy Of Dirt written by Olli Lagerspetz and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with Philosophy categories.

What is dirt, and what does it really mean to be dirty or clean? Dirt and cleaning are often associated with ideas of guilt, otherness, and social control, but also with living responsibly and in harmony with the environment. In this learned, innovative study, Olli Lagerspetz offers a persuasive discussion of dirt and its ramifications across philosophy and culture. Writing with wit and grit, he argues that questions of dirt and soiling can neither be reduced to hygiene nor to ritual pollution. Instead, they are integral to almost every human activity. As participants in material culture, we not only produce things and dispose of them, but we also engage with them practically, aesthetically, and morally. Everything, in essence, comes back to dirt and waste. Ranging through subjects and times, from Heraclitus of Ephesus to the Renaissance (via Heidegger and Mary Douglas), from the hygienic products of modernity to abject art, Lagerspetz constantly questions current thinking on all subjects most foul. Proposing a new view of dirt based on our physical engagement with the world, A Philosophy of Dirt is essential reading for all students of philosophy and for anyone who’s felt soiled—and wants to know why.

Clean Dirt

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Author : Ann Houston-Sago
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-26

Clean Dirt written by Ann Houston-Sago and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-26 with Fiction categories.

How important is dirt? What is the difference between clean dirt and dirty dirt? What if we viewed our lives as seeds and we had the opportunity to choose in which dirt our seeds would be planted? This book encourages us to examine our lives and to re-evaluate the quality of our dirt. Prepare to dig more deeply into your dirt and to become more involved in cultivating the life God has set before you.

All The Dirt

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Author : Katherine Ashenburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

All The Dirt written by Katherine Ashenburg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Presents information about personal cleanliness in different historical periods and cultures from around the world, examining the widely varying conceptions of what cleanliness has meant in different times and places.--