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:…
How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the was…
