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The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday
ISBN: 9780679740384 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailersextorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism.
Drawing on a wealth of period documents and illustrations, Nissenbaum... Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had...
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82,37 zł |
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Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform
ISBN: 9780313214158 / Angielski / Twarda / 1980 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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341,02 zł |
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Salem-Village Witchcraft
ISBN: 9781555531652 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Few episodes in American history have aroused such intense and continued interest as the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. This volume draws exclusively on primary documents to reveal the underlying conflicts and tensions that caused that small, agricultural settlement to explode with such dramatic force.
Few episodes in American history have aroused such intense and continued interest as the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. This volume draws exclusively o...
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202,36 zł |