Merry Christmas! Celebrating AmericaÕs Greatest HolidayIt wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become. |
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معاينة المستخدمين - auntieknickers - LibraryThingKaral Ann Marling is an art historian at the University of Minnesota whose specialty is American visual culture. (She has also written a book on the Minnesota State Fair.) Merry Christmas! is thus a ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
MERRY CHRISTMAS!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
معاينة المستخدمين - KirkusLike an agreeably stuffed literary Christmas stocking, Marling's entertaining history of how Christmas became America's top holiday is generously filled with interesting facts, anecdotes, and period ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
المحتوى
WRAPPING PAPER UNWRAPPED Holly Boxes Tissue Paper and Bows | 1 |
THE CHRISTMAS BUSINESS Greenery Lights Ornaments Toy Villages | 43 |
WINDOW SHOPPING Department Store Displays Santalands and Macys Big Parade | 82 |
OLDE CHRISTMAS Dickens Irving and Christmas Charity | 121 |
TANNENBAUM Indoor and Outdoor Christmas Tree Spectacles | 160 |
SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN TO TOWN Store Santas Kettle Santas CocaCola Santas | 197 |
SOMEBODY ELSES CHRISTMAS Hot Christmas Black Christmas Faraway Christmas | 243 |
THINKING OF YOU AT CHRISTMAS Cards or Gifts? | 284 |
DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS How Bing Crosby and the Grinch Almost Stole Christmas | 321 |
A MEDITATION ON CHRISTMAS COOKIES | 359 |
NOTES | 365 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 433 |
| 437 | |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | Merry Christmas! Celebrating AmericaÕs Greatest Holiday |
| المؤلف | Karal Ann Marling |
| الإصدار | غير مختصر |
| الناشر | Harvard University Press, 2009 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0674040627, 9780674040625 |
| عدد الصفحات | 460 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |