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Preface: the personal and the public in the American home -- Chronology -- Cleanliness: preceding the bathroom -- Sanitation: creating the bathroom -- Technology: furnishing the bathroom -- Infrastructure: connecting the bathroom -- Inequality: acquiring the bathroom -- Privacy:…
This book gives a complete history of the American bathroom and describes how the smallest yet most complex room in the American house is at the nexus of personal behavior and public investment.
A pictorial price guide to household accessories of years past. Featuring more than a thousand color photographs, Collectibles for the Kitchen, Bath & Beyond takes you back to the days when bright ceramic stringholders kept the kitchen string untangled and fanciful pie birds hel…
Dr Fujita reminds us of the critically important role that human rights can play. Opening up new perspectives, this book is a major and original contribution to the literature. From the foreword by Paul Hunt Sanae Fujita's book, The World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Human R…
A study of the significance of bathing in Japanese mythology and the historical development of communal bathing.
This book discusses social, religious and medical attitudes towards bathing in Late Antiquity. It examines the place of bathing in late Roman and early Byzantine society as seen in the literary, historical, and documentary sources from the late antique period. The author argues …
This book discusses social, religious and medical attitudes towards bathing in Late Antiquity. It examines the place of bathing in late Roman and early Byzantine society as seen in the literary, historical, and documentary sources from the late antique period. The author argues …