The Battle for Christmas A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday【電子書籍】[ Stephen Nissenbaum ]

＜p＞＜strong＞PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ? Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (＜em＞The New York Times Book Review)＜/em＞ 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.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas” and ＜em＞A Christmas Carol＜/em＞, ＜em．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る