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Item Details
Title:
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CHRISTMAS
A HISTORY |
By: |
Mark Connelly |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£31.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1860644465 |
ISBN 13: |
9781860644467 |
Publisher: |
I.B.TAURIS & CO LTD. |
Pub. date: |
31 August, 1999 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
A study of the themes which have contributed to the modern Christmas as an icon of cultural and social history. |
Synopsis: |
This is a study of the themes which have contributed to the modern Christmas as an icon of cultural and social history. Among those themes are its Anglo-German origins and the idea of the bourgeois Christmas expressing family virtues; the liberal values at the heart of Anglo-American political, cultural and social life; the need for a touchstone with the past in a age of rapid expansion, and thus the myth of Merrie England; the link with imperial expansion and the position of the mother country; the revival of English music - perhaps the greatest age of church music and carols since the 14th century; printing and publishing and the increase in literacy; shopping and consumerism; and broadcasting. |
Illustrations: |
appendix, bibliography, index |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
I.B.Tauris |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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