Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet

Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet

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Book Description
Who would have supposed that the Romans had lagged hot-water pipes? That Queen Elizabeth I had a valve water-closet? That Louis IV had cushions in his bath? This informative and hilarious book leads the reader to believe that more may be learned about the past from bathrooms than from battlefields, and that patterns of social history are mirrored in the bathwater.

From the Publisher
Who would have supposed that the Romans had insulated hot water pipes? That Queen Elizabeth I had a valve water–closet? That Louis XIV had cushions in his bath? That sponges have sex? Clean and Decent, says the author, “is meant to entertain, even if scholarship does keep breaking through.” Engrossing and amusing, this classic illustrated history of the bathroom and water–closet, first published in 1960, suggests that more may be learned about the past from lavatories than from battlefields.

Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet,Lawrence Wright,Penguin Global,0141390352,General,History,History - General History,History: American,World - General,History / General,Social history,USA

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