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Christmas : a candid history / Bruce David Forbes.
LIBRA GT4985 .F67 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forbes, Bruce David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas--History.
- Christmas.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, "Christmas: A Candid History" provides an enlightening, entertaining tour through history, telling the story of Christmas and its traditions--from its pre-Christian roots to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. University of California Press
- Contents:
- First there was winter
- Christmas comes late
- Christmas is like a snowball
- From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus
- And then there was money
- Wrestling with Christmas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520251045
- 0520251040
- OCLC:
- 77767039
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