This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade cultur

How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habi

This study uses the French experience to examine one fundamental aspect of the 'civilizing process': cleanliness.

While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by stud

DIVDocuments the early days of the French welfare state through the Musée Social, an early think tank./div