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Thanksgiving : the biography of an American holiday / James W. Baker ; foreword by Peter J. Gomes.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating GT4975 .B33 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, James W., 1926-2011.
- Series:
- Revisiting New England
- Revisiting New England : the new regionalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thanksgiving Day--History.
- Thanksgiving Day.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- Thanksgiving Day--History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- A Thanksgiving Detective Story
- New England's Puritan Holy Days
- The Traditional New England Thanksgiving
- The Classic New England Thanksgiving Dinner
- The Nation Embraces Thanksgiving, 1780-1880
- Nineteenth-Century Holiday Imagery in Literature and Art
- Enter the Pilgrims
- Pilgrims Are for Kids: Thanksgiving in the Progressive Classroom
- Imaging the Holiday
- Parades, Patriotism, and Consumption
- Consensus and Competition: The Postwar Thanksgiving
- New Myths for Old
- Thanksgiving under Siege
- Thanksgiving Now, Then, and Forever.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-266) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781584658016
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