Cleanliness : idea and practice in Britain, 1770-1850
The thesis examines historical attitixles to cleanliness: why people wanted to be 'clean'; and hz far they may have been so, in Britain between c.1650-1850, and in detail between 1770-1850. The social and nedical attitues of different groups were reconstrtxted fran the popular nedical advi...
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London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
1985
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296132 |