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Merry Christmas! : Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (459 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674040625
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Merry Christmas!DDC classification:
  • 394.2663/0973
LOC classification:
  • GT4985
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Wrapping Paper Unwrapped: Holly Boxes, Tissue Paper, and Bows -- 2. The Christmas Business: Greenery, Lights, Ornaments, Toy Villages -- 3. Window Shopping: Department Store Displays, Santalands, and Macy's Big Parade -- 4. Olde Christmas: Dickens, Irving, and Christmas Charity -- 5. O Tannenbaum: Indoor and Outdoor Christmas Tree Spectacles -- 6. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town: Store Santas, Kettle Santas, Coca-Cola Santas -- 7. Somebody Else's Christmas: Hot Christmas, Black Christmas, Faraway Christmas -- 8. Thinking of You at Christmas: Cards or Gifts? -- 9. Dreaming of a White Christmas: How Bing Crosby and the Grinch Almost Stole Christmas -- Postscript: A Meditation on Christmas Cookies -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: It 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, Marling describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Wrapping Paper Unwrapped: Holly Boxes, Tissue Paper, and Bows -- 2. The Christmas Business: Greenery, Lights, Ornaments, Toy Villages -- 3. Window Shopping: Department Store Displays, Santalands, and Macy's Big Parade -- 4. Olde Christmas: Dickens, Irving, and Christmas Charity -- 5. O Tannenbaum: Indoor and Outdoor Christmas Tree Spectacles -- 6. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town: Store Santas, Kettle Santas, Coca-Cola Santas -- 7. Somebody Else's Christmas: Hot Christmas, Black Christmas, Faraway Christmas -- 8. Thinking of You at Christmas: Cards or Gifts? -- 9. Dreaming of a White Christmas: How Bing Crosby and the Grinch Almost Stole Christmas -- Postscript: A Meditation on Christmas Cookies -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

It 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, Marling describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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