ISBN10: 0691017212, ISBN13: 9780691017211, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0691017212, ISBN13: 9780691017211, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Slogans such as 'Let's put Christ back into Christmas' or 'Jesus is the Reason for the Season' hold an appeal to Christians who oppose the commercializing of events they hold sacred. However, through a close look at the rise of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt show us that commercial appropriations of these occasions were as religious in form as they were secular. The rituals of America's holiday bazaar that emerged in the nineteenth century offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane--a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift-giving, profits and sentiments, all celebrations of a devout consumption. In this richly illustrated book, which captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances for 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. Merchants and advertisers were crucial for the reimagining of the holidays, promoting them in a grand, ...
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ISBN10: 0691017212, ISBN13: 9780691017211, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover reprint edition. 379 pages. 9.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0691017212, ISBN13: 9780691017211, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Softcover Paperback. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1997]