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Christmas in Germany : A Cultural History /

For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter sol...

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Autor principal: Perry, Joe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Germany's Favorite Holiday; CHAPTER ONE: Scripting a National Holiday; CHAPTER TWO: Contradictions in the Christmas Mood; CHAPTER THREE: Christmas in Enemy Territory; CHAPTER FOUR: Under the Sign of Kauflust; CHAPTER FIVE: Christmas in the Third Reich; CHAPTER SIX: Ghosts of Christmas Past; Conclusion: The Nation around the Christmas Tree; Notes; Bibliography; Index