Oxford University Press, Date: 1995-12-07. 1. Used - Like New. Used Like New, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. 1995. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195093003 9780195093001 [US]

Oxford University Press, USA, Date: 1995-12-07. Hardcover. Used: Good. 1995. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 0195093003 9780195093001 [US]

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ISBN10: 0195093003, ISBN13: 9780195093001, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event - if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed - and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as ''Twas the Night Before Christmas', virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full-fledged national holiday had ...
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ISBN10: 0195093003, ISBN13: 9780195093001, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Twentieth-century America often seems obsessed with the idea of Christmas. It is a time of public displays, illuminated department stores, and the showing of popular films such as Miracle on 34th Street, and It's a Wonderful Life. This book describes the evolution of Christmas celebration in America since the early 17th century. It looks how there came about such holiday traditions as Santa Claus, Christmas trees andtrimmings, gift-giving and charity-giving, Christmas cards and wrappings. The book brilliantly puts this description into the broader context of social and economic change, the influence of women, and the impact of popularentertainment and culture. Did you know.? * The effects of the Civil War helped establish Christmas as a national holiday, as soldiers and their families increasingly saw it as a symbol of `home'. * During the early years of the nation, Puritan New England hardly celebrated Christmas at all, while in the South it was a sumptuous and rowdy occasion. * The tradition of the Christmas treewas introduced to America by German immigrants. * A little known clergyman, Clement Moore, largely created the image of Santa Claus with his `An Account of the Visit from St. Nicholas'. In Christmas in America, Restad explores the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. Shipping may be from multiple locations ...