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Chasing dirt : the American pursuit of cleanliness /

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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...

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Main Author: Hoy, Suellen M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Hygiene > United States > History.
Public health > United States > History.
Hygiene > history
Sanitation > history
Social Change > history
United States
Hygiène > États-Unis > Histoire.
Santé publique > États-Unis > Histoire.
44.10 public health service: general.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
Hygiene
Public health
Geschichte
USA
Schoonmaken.
Hygiëne.
Culturele aspecten.
Preventieve gezondheidszorg.
Hygiene > History
Electronic books.
History
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