A review by jmeston
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg

4.0

Lively and quick. I liked all the examples showing that cleanliness is culturally determined. It is a challenge to set one's assumptions aside and imagine the different ways clean and dirty have been understood.
A few of the examples were new to me and made me wonder if another source would confirm. Did the chamber pots at Versailles really sit in the hallways and not get emptied?!