Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness by Suellen Hoy

Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness

Suellen Hoy

288 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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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 d...

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