Victorian Turkish Baths

Victorian Turkish Baths is the first book to bring to light the hidden history of a fascinating institution—the more than six hundred dry hot air baths that sprang up across Ireland, Britain, and beyond in the 19th century. Malcolm Shifrin explores the bath’s Irish-Roman antecedents, the ideology and politics behind their construction, their architecture and technologies, their advertising, and of course bathhouse sex, both real and imagined. Offering a wealth of detail, from the baths used to treat sick horses to those reserved for the first-class passengers on the Titanic, Victorian Turkish Baths will be of interest to history enthusiasts, gender studies scholars, and architecture buffs.