Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays

by Leigh Eric Schmidt (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $51.33

  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.