| Description |
1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
European inheritances: Christmas in the Colonies -- Red-letter days: Christmas and the new American calendar -- The beginnings of a modern Christmas -- Home for Christmas: family, religion, and Santa Claus -- Home for Christmas: Christmas trees and Christmas giving -- Christmas in the Slave South -- A holiday for the nation -- A traditional American Christmas -- Gilding Christmas: gifts, charity, and commerce -- The American Santa Claus -- A frame of mind: Christmas in the twentieth century |
| Summary |
The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. In Christmas in America, Restad captures the rise and transformation of the most universal national holiday |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-209) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Christmas -- United States -- History
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RELIGION -- Holidays -- Christmas & Advent.
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Christmas
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Manners and customs
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Weihnachten
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Brauch
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Geschichte
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Kerstmis.
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Christmas -- United States -- History
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Christmas -- -- United States-- -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527
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United States
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USA
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United States -- Social life and customs
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United States -- -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
94042357 |
| ISBN |
9780195109801 |
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0195109805 |
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1429406852 |
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9781429406857 |
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0199854076 |
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9780199854073 |
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9780198025320 |
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0198025327 |
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9786610529155 |
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6610529159 |
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