Subjects: “…Christmas. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025303…”

Subjects: “…Christmas Bibliography.…”

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: First There Was Winter; Two: Christmas Comes Late; Three: Christmas Is Like a Snowball; Four: From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus; Five: And Then There Was Money; Six: Wrestling with Christmas; Notes; Annotated Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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Table of Contents: “…First there was winter -- Christmas comes late -- Christmas is like a snowball -- From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus -- And then there was money -- Wrestling with Christmas.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The invention of the English Christmas / John Storey -- Conspicuous consumption and festive follies : Victorian images of Christmas / Sara M. …”
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Table of Contents: “…A growing business -- Selecting land -- Species to grow -- Where to get trees -- Choosing the planting stock -- Preparing the ground -- When to plant trees -- Care and handling of planting stock -- Planning and managing the plantation -- Spacing of trees -- The planting job -- Keeping plantations clean -- Shearing -- Protecting the plantation -- Grading christmas trees -- Harvesting -- Going to market -- Other products of the plantation -- Profits and taxes.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Selection; Introduction; Part I: Christmas in Dixie; Christmas with My Colonel; Christmas Eve on the Plantation; Christmas Eve on Wicklow; A Plantation Christmas; Christmas in the Castle; Prince Alston: God's Special Child; A Wildwood Christmas; December Doings; Plantation Christmases; Part II: A Natural Christmas; My Christmas Birds and Trees; Birds of the Southern Winter; My Winter Woods; Woodcock in the Snow; A Winter Home for Wildfowl; Part III: The Hampton Hunt: Whitetail Tales; A Hunt with the Oakland Pack.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover -- An INDIANA Christmas -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Earthbound -- Winter Scene, Past Midnight -- The Fable of the Cut-up Who Came Very Near Losing His Ticket, but Who Turned Defeat into Victory -- Making Pierogi on Christmas Eve -- Keeping Christmas Our Way -- Digging and Grousing -- The farm wife finds grace in her empty barn -- The farm wife makes her Christmas list -- Indiana Winter -- Home for the Holidays -- A Reversible Santa Claus -- Two Pieces -- Shepherds, Why This Jubilee? …”
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Table of Contents: “…"A candle lit in the darkness": the Christmas truce and the First World War -- "Absolute hell": the Western Front in 1914 -- "A great day with our enemies": the Christmas truce -- "No war today": the Christmas truce as reported in official war diaries and regimental histories -- "One day of peace at the front": the Christmas truce and the British press -- "That unique and weird Christmas": the Christmas truce during the war -- "The curious Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1920-1959 -- "The famous Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1960-1969 -- "The legendary Christmas truce": the First World War, the Christmas truce, and social history, 1970-1989 -- "Memories of Christmas 1914 persist": orthodoxy, revisionism, and the Christmas truce, 1990-2014 -- "It was peace that won": the Christmas truce and the narrative of the First World War.…”
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Table of Contents: “…New England's war on Christmas -- Revisiting "A visit from St. Nicholas" -- The parlor and the street -- Affection's gift : toward a history of Christmas presents -- Under the Christmas tree : a battle of generations -- Tiny Tim and other charity cases -- Wassiling across the color line : Christmas in the antebellum South -- Epilogue : The ghosts of Christmas past.…”

Subjects: “…Christmas California.…”