Consumer Rites
Consumer Rites

Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780691017211

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Reexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from 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.

Bazaars and Fair Ladies
Bazaars and Fair Ladies

Author: Beverly Gordon

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781572330146

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Tracing their development from the early 1800s to the present day, Gordon shows how women's fairs have reflected and influenced American culture, including styles of display and presentation, forms of public entertainment, attitudes about consumption and commodities, and perceptions of other cultures and of the past.

Bazaar Literature
Bazaar Literature

Author: LESLEE. THORNE-MURPHY

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0192866885

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Charity bazaars were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars--which shaped the social, political, and literary movements of its time.

Author: Nancy Gates

Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0882406051

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With facts and figures on geography, history, economy, cultures, and peoples of the Last Frontier, the 29th edition is packed with all-about-Alaska information for people who dream of visiting Alaska, as well as long-lasting sourdoughs.

The Alaska Almanac
The Alaska Almanac

Author: Nancy Gates

Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0882406523

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If you want to know Alaska inside and out, there is no better reference than THE ALASKA ALMANAC.. Updated annually with facts and figures on geography, history, economics, sports, cultures, and people of the Last Frontier, this information-packed volume is a must-have for Alaskans and visitors alike. Celebrating its thirtieth birthday this year, this handy little guide is chock-full of Alaskana, from the beautiful to the bizarre. As always, the wit and wisdom of Mr. Whitekeys continues to delight readers with his wacky-but-true Alaska factoids. Did you know . . . Arctic researchers on the northern tundra have reported up to 9,000 mosquito bites per minute. There are 166,000 moose in Alaska. Each one produces approximately 400 ""moose nuggets"" per day. Alaskans are the second highest per capita consumers of SPAM. in the nation. ""Gold nuggets about Alaska."" -- The Associated Press