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The Battle for Christmas

by Stephen Nissenbaum

A social history of Christmas in the United States, tracing its transformation from a rowdy carnival season into a domestic, child-centred and commercial holiday in the nineteenth century. Nissenbaum also discusses Puritan opposition to the feast.

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