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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction: Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be
1 Patents That Should Still be Pending: Failed and foolish inventions, and the rocky road to progress
2 Are you Really Going to Eat That?: Food, not-so-glorious food
3 Rats and Other Fashion Accessories: Style and beauty back then
4 Hang ’Em High or Drawn and Quartered?: Crime and punishment through the ages
5 First, Do No Harm—Oops!: Medicine’s painful past
6 Cleanliness is Next to Impossible: Sanitation and hygiene
7 Home Is Where the Horror is: The dirty truth about yesterday’s houses
8 Nice work if you can survive it: Factories, farms and other death traps
9 No Wonder they call it the “Dismal Science”: Money and economics, the rich and (mostly) the poor
10 Low Society: Fads, fallacies and fancies, holidays and living high on the hog
11 We are not Amused: Sports, recreation and what our ancestors called “fun”
12 No-Go: Transportation flops and detours
13 Life in a State of Nature: Wild things and natural (and unnatural) disasters
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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