The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/46687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Battle for Christmas Author: Stephen Nissenbaum Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: mp3 Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins Release date: 11-26-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings Genres: Social Sciences Publisher's Summary: Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers" extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism.