Format:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 179 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520251045
Content:
Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas-from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insigh
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: First There Was Winter; Two: Christmas Comes Late; Three: Christmas Is Like a Snowball; Four: From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus; Five: And Then There Was Money; Six: Wrestling with Christmas; Notes; Annotated Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520933729
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781282359215
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Forbes, Bruce David, 1948 - Christmas Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2007 ISBN 9780520251045
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520251040
Language:
English
Keywords:
Weihnachten
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Geschichte
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