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Sweeping the German Nation

Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945

Sweeping the German Nation
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German housekeepers have an international reputation characterized by thrift, order, and extreme cleanliness. But where did this stereotype come from? This book explores how Germans defined and developed a particular style of domesticity in the late nineteenth century, and how it became crucial to German national identity.
Cambridge University Press; October 2006
264 pages; ISBN 9780511247682
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