Ask The Past: Pertinent And Impertinent Advice From Yesteryear

Author: Elizabeth P Archibald (The Johns Hopkins University)

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Price : $10.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780316298896
Publisher : Hachette Books
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Weight (g) : 0.318
Publication date : 01 May 2015
Produced in : United States
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Author : Elizabeth P Archibald (The Johns Hopkins University)
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 032.01
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Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward. Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald, Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird. Whether it's eighteenth-century bedbug advice (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder), budget fashion tips of the Middle Ages (save on the clothes, splurge on the purse) or a sixteenth-century primer on seduction (hint: do no pass gas), Ask the Past is a wildly entertaining guide to life from the people who lived it first.

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Yale-educated historian Elizabeth P. Archibald is an instructor at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins. Her research focuses on the history of education from antiquity to the Renaissance, as well as the history of books. She launched the blog Ask the Past in 2013.

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