"Cleanly in their persons and cleanly in their dwellings": an archaeological investigation of health, hygiene, and sanitation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England

In this dissertation, I investigate how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England regarded and negotiated the fundamental personal issues of health, hygiene, and sanitation. I employ environmental archaeological and material data, in particular parasite remains, from six New England privy sites...

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Main Author: Gallagher, Diana
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/14306