Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays
by Leigh Eric Schmidt
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- ISBN 10
- 0691017212
- ISBN 13
- 9780691017211
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Paperback / softback. New. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays.
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- Title
- Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays
- Author
- Leigh Eric Schmidt
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691017212
- ISBN 13
- 9780691017211
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- This edition first published
- October 27, 1997
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