Disgusting History

Disgusting History

Author: James A. Corrick

Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1476577455

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"Describes the disgusting details about daily life in several historical eras, including housing, food, and sanitation"--


It's Disgusting-- and We Ate It!

It's Disgusting-- and We Ate It!

Author: James Solheim

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 9781484401194

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A collection of poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical.


The Great Big Book of Horrible Things

The Great Big Book of Horrible Things

Author: Matthew White

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-10-25

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 0393081923

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A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view. Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives voice to the suffering of ordinary people that, inexorably, has defined every historical epoch. By turns droll, insightful, matter-of-fact, and ultimately sympathetic to those who died, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives readers a chance to reach their own conclusions while offering a stark reminder of the darkness of the human heart.


Gritty, Stinky Ancient Egypt

Gritty, Stinky Ancient Egypt

Author: James A. Corrick

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 1429654066

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"Describes disgusting details about daily life in ancient Egypt, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.


World's Grossest History Facts

World's Grossest History Facts

Author: Scott Nickel

Publisher: Lerner Publications TM

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 172845560X

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The past was disgusting. Sewage ran into the rivers people bathed in. Doctors drank their patients' urine to diagnose them. This title has plenty of nasty facts to gross you out.


The Wicked History of the World

The Wicked History of the World

Author: Terry Deary

Publisher: Scholastic Reference

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780439877862

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An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.


Dirty Old London

Dirty Old London

Author: Lee Jackson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0300192053

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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.


The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies

The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies

Author: Elizabeth Raum

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1429639598

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An educational and entertaining look at what life was like in Colonial America. From moldy food and dirt covered clothes to poisonous pests and extreme weather, American colonists did not have the easiest lives. Items that we take for granted like deodorant and soap were no where to be found. A great way to get kids interested in history and appreciative of our lives today.


History of Shit

History of Shit

Author: Dominique Laporte

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002-02-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780262621601

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"A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless." Written in Paris after the heady days of student revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, History of Shit is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of 1970s' theoretical writing that attempted to marry theory, politics, sexuality, pleasure, experimentation, and humor. Radically redefining dialectical thought and post-Marxist politics, it takes an important—and irreverent—position alongside the works of such postmodern thinkers as Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Lyotard. Laporte's eccentric style and ironic sensibility combine in an inquiry that is provocative, humorous, and intellectually exhilarating. Debunking all humanist mythology about the grandeur of civilization, History of Shit suggests instead that the management of human waste is crucial to our identities as modern individuals—including the organization of the city, the rise of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the mandate for clean and proper language. Far from rising above the muck, Laporte argues, we are thoroughly mired in it, particularly when we appear our most clean and hygienic. Laporte's style of writing is itself an attack on our desire for "clean language." Littered with lengthy quotations and obscure allusions, and adamantly refusing to follow a linear argument, History of Shit breaks the rules and challenges the conventions of "proper" academic discourse.


The Ancient Emotion of Disgust

The Ancient Emotion of Disgust

Author: Donald Lateiner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0190604115

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The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship. The emotions of the classical world can be plumbed to provide a valuable heuristic tool. Emotions can help us understand key issues of ancient ethics, ideological assumptions, and normative behaviors, but, more frequently than not, classical scholars have turned their attention to "social emotions" requiring practical decisions and ethical judgments in public and private gatherings. The emotion of disgust has been unwarrantedly neglected, even though it figures saliently in many literary genres, such as iambic poetry and comedy, historiography, and even tragedy and philosophy. This collection of seventeen essays by fifteen authors features the emotion of disgust as one cutting edge of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Individual contributions explore a wide range of topics. These include the semantics of the emotion both in Greek and Latin literature, its social uses as a means of marginalizing individuals or groups of individuals, such as politicians judged deviant or witches, its role in determining aesthetic judgments, and its potentialities as an elicitor of aesthetic pleasure. The papers also discuss the vocabulary and uses of disgust in life (Galli, actors, witches, homosexuals) and in many literary genres: ancient theater, oratory, satire, poetry, medicine, historiography, Hellenistic didactic and fable, and the Roman novel. The Introduction addresses key methodological issues concerning the nature of the emotion, its cognitive structure, and modern approaches to it. It also outlines the differences between ancient and modern disgust and emphasizes the appropriateness of "projective or second-level disgust" (vilification) as a means of marginalizing unwanted types of behavior and stigmatizing morally condemnable categories of individuals. The volume is addressed first to scholars who work in the field of classics, but, since texts involving disgust also exhibit significant cultural variation, the essays will attract the attention of scholars who work in a wide spectrum of disciplines, including history, social psychology, philosophy, anthropology, comparative literature, and cross-cultural studies.