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So clean;lord leverhulme, soap and civilisation.
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ISBN: 1526130432 9781526130433 Year: 2017 Publisher: MANCHESTER MANCHESTER UNIV Press

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This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. Unlike previous biographies, which have focused on the man's life story and eccentricities, or just considered one aspect of his career, So clean places him squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent historical scholarship. Much more than a warts-and-all biography, the book uses Lever as an entry-point for contextualized and comparative essays on the history of advertising; on factory paternalism, town planning, the Garden City movement and their ramifications across the twentieth century; and on colonialism and forced labour in the Belgian Congo and the South Pacific. It concludes with a discussion of his extraordinary attempt, in his final years, to transform crofting and fishing in the Outer Hebrides.Written in an engaging and accessible style, So Clean will appeal to academics and students working in business, social, cultural and imperial history.

Eyes on tomorrow: the evolution of Procter and Gamble
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ISBN: 0894340115 9780894340116 Year: 1981 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. Ferguson


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Biodegradable
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ISBN: 0585174024 9780585174020 0890964793 9780890964798 Year: 1991 Volume: no. 12 Publisher: College Station Texas A & M University Press

Franklin's father Josiah : life of a colonial Boston Tallow Chandler 1657-1745
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ISBN: 0871699036 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York, NY ; Rheine : American Philosophical Society,

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Economic life in Ottoman Jerusalem
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ISBN: 0521365511 0521524350 0511523963 9780521365512 9780511523960 9780521524353 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Jerusalem was never just another Ottoman town, but in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire it displayed many of the characteristics of a Muslim traditional society. Professor Cohen makes full use of the rich and hitherto unexplored Arabic and Turkish archives relating to this period to reconstruct a vivid and detailed picture of everyday life in this lively urban centre. His study focuses on the major guilds of sixteenth-century Jerusalem - butchers, soap-producers and dealers, millers and bakers, describing and analysing their production methods, prices and measures, and the services they provided for the local population. In addition, their economic ties with neighbouring villages, as well as their social background and inter-relations are discussed. The author shows how this detailed knowledge can lead to a better understanding of the longer-term changes in the economy of the city and of the Empire as a whole.

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