Washing "the Great Unwashed"

Washing
Author: Marilyn T. Williams
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1991
Genre: Public baths
ISBN: 0814205372

Williams (history, Pace U.) details the public bath movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries--the origins, proponents, motives, achievements. Take note California--your drought may be permanent. This is a heavily revised thesis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Bathing in Public in the Roman World

Bathing in Public in the Roman World
Author: Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2002
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780472088652

An uninhibited glance into the extensive baths of Rome