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Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History
Christmas in Germany A Cultural History
Author: Joe Perry
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 solstice rituals of pagan "Teutonic" tribes, the c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807833643
ISBN-10: 0807833649
Publication Date: 9/27/2010
Pages: 424
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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