Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691029806 9780691029801 [US]

Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691029806 9780691029801 [US]

Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691029806 9780691029801 [US]

Princeton University Press, Date: 1995. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1995. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691029806 9780691029801 [US]

Princeton University Press, Date: 1995. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1995. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691029806 9780691029801 [US]

Princeton: Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0691029806 . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 296 pages; 1995 Princeton University Press HC/DJ. 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Contents crisp and fresh; no marks. Trace dust top edge. Feels and appears unread. NF/NF . 1995. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691029806 9780691029801 [US]

ISBN10: 0691029806, ISBN13: 9780691029801, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ] Hardcover 363 pp. Flawless book and dj. Relivent newspaper artical included by previous owner.
[The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, Date: 1995. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No chips. No tears. 101 illustrations. From the Dust Jacket: "Reexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from the mid-eighteenth century through the twentieth, the author offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that various social critics have long decried for their spiritual emptiness and banal sentimentality. Schmidt tells the story of how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and other religious reformers in the colonies but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... Schmidt uses everything from diaries to manuals on church decoration and window display to show in bright detail the ways people have prepared for and celebrated specific holidays - such as going Christmas shopping, making love tokens, choosing Easter bonnets, sending flowers to Mom, or buying ties for Dad. He ...