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"Washing the great unwashed examines the almost forgotten public bath movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--its origins, its leaders and their motives, and its achievements. Marilyn Williams surveys the development of the American obsession with cleanliness in the nineteenth century and discusses the public bath movement in the context of urban reform in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston"--Book jacket.… (meer)
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The "great unwashed" were not so from choice.
--Jacob A. Riis
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To my mother, Lydia Marcotte Thornton, and to the memory of my father, William E. Thornton.
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
By 1897, when a New York City newspaper editor wrote these words, public baths were accepted as one of the important services which progressive American cities must provide for their poorer citizens.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The gospel of cleanliness has become a basic tenet of American life, but it is the private bathroom, growing ever more elaborate and luxurious, and not the public bath that is the bath reformers' monument.
"Washing the great unwashed examines the almost forgotten public bath movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--its origins, its leaders and their motives, and its achievements. Marilyn Williams surveys the development of the American obsession with cleanliness in the nineteenth century and discusses the public bath movement in the context of urban reform in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston"--Book jacket.