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of " The Battle for Christmas," about how Americans changed the holiday and the tradition of gift-giving. " The Battle for Christmas" by Stephen Nissenbaum is published by Knopf. A masterful account of Christmas's transformation from a rowdy bacchanalian revel to a child-centered, domestic celebration, with all its attendant commercial glitter. It's unusual that a work of history manages to be both entertaining and intelligent, yet this is precisely the appeal of this excellent book. Nissenbaum (History/Univ. of Massachusetts) has combined considerable research with. By Stephen Nissenbaum (New York: Alfred A. Knopf xiii plus pp.). If on the night before Christmas, , a New York gentlemen like Clement Clarke Moore heard "such a clatter" out on the lawn he might very well have expected to have found a "callithumpian band" of drunken working-class youths forcing their way into his home demanding alcohol, food, and money. But Christmas traditions.

With stories like this, buttressed by systematic evidence from journals, letters, and newspaper accounts, Stephen Nissenbaum elegantly shows how an early nineteenth-century "Battle for Christmas" not only mirrored significant transformations in American culture, but was "an active instrument of change as well." (p. The Battle for Christmas () is a broad survey of the history behind the evolution of the Christmas holiday by American author and professor Stephen Nissenbaum. Nissenbaum’s book gives an ambivalent take on the Americanization of Christmas, casting the widely celebrated event as problematic, bound up in consumerism and legacies of racial and religious oppression. The Battle for Christmas, by Stephen Nissenbaum, is a fascinating study of opposing views of the Christmas celebration in America. When immigrants brought their Christmas rituals from northern and southern Europe, the customs were not always welcome. Puritans dismissed Christmas as a pagan celebration masquerading as a Christian feast.