The Encyclopædic Dictionary
Author: Robert Hunter
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 790
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Author: Robert Hunter
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 790
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Mason Good
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Published: 1813
Total Pages: 810
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Published: 1796
Total Pages: 746
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Byron Brittan
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Published: 1882
Total Pages: 570
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0307760227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism. Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas” and A Christmas Carol, The Battle for Christmas captures the glorious strangeness of the past even as it helps us better understand our present.
Author: Robert Hunter
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 1356
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 1376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1806
Total Pages: 1142
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Published: 1799
Total Pages: 1174
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