TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marling,Karal Ann
TI  - Merry Christmas!
SN  - 9780674040625
AV  - GT4985.A1 -- M37 2000eb 
U1  - 394.2663/0973 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Christmas decorations
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Christmas
KW  - Décorations de Noël
KW  - Histoire
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Noël
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; 1 Wrapping Paper Unwrapped --; 2 The Christmas Business --; 3 Window Shopping --; 4 Olde Christmas --; 5 O Tannenbaum --; 6 Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town --; 7 Somebody Else’s Christmas --; 8 Thinking of You at Christmas --; 9 Dreaming of a White Christmas --; Postscript --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040625
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040625
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