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Steven Zdatny is Professor of History at The University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Survival: Artisans in Twentieth-Century France (1990), Hairstyles and Fashion: A Hairdresser’s History of Paris, 1910-1920 (1999) and Fashion, Work, and Politics in Modern France (2006).
This entertaining book reads like Eugen Weber’s classic Peasants into Frenchmen, as Steve Zdatny leads the reader on a veritable romp through earthy quotations from the archives, to memoirs, to literature. Along the way, he reveals a hygienic French revolution, as cleanliness definitively replaced crap in modern France. - Stephen L. Harp, Distinguished Professor, University of Akron, USA. Deeply researched and charmingly written, it holds wide appeal for scholars of infrastructure, urbanism, nation building, and the senses—and the co-constitutive relationship between them. * H-Net Reviews * Zdatny assesses and challenges long-standing critiques of hygienic modernisation * English Historical Review *
