Battle for Christmas A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday

Name: Battle for Christmas A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday
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ISBN: 9780679740384

ISBN-10: 0679740384

ISBN-13: 9780679740384

Edition: 1997

Authors: Stephen Nissenbaum

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"Fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism. Drawing on a wealth of period documents and illustrations, Nissenbaum charts the invention of our…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.99" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English