Holy Day, Holiday : The American Sunday /
The mass protests that greeted attempts to open the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on a Sunday seem almost comical today in an era of seven-day convenience and twenty-four-hour shopping. But the issue of the meaning of Sunday is one that has historically given rise to a wide range of strong emotions...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2000.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Method of Reckoning Time
- 1. What Is a Day of Rest?
- 2. A Sermon, Three Hundred Miles Long
- 3. Far from Civilized Country
- 4. The Sabbath for Man
- 5. Opening Up Sunday
- 6. The Sunday Drive
- 7. Putting the Dollar Mark on It
- 8. Daddy's Day with Baby
- 9. What Is Rest?
- Epilogue: Crazy Sunday
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index