The Battle for Christmas

Anyone who feels sad about excessive Christmas will consider Massachusetts colony Puritans. They just prohibit this holiday. Because Christmas was an opportunity for alcoholism and riots when a poor 'prostitute forced' rich food and drink from rich. ' In this interesting innovative social historical work, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovered It shows the origin of Christmas and how it changed to the family and consumer festival in the 19th century

Nissenbaum draws documents and illustrations from many periods depicting the invention of our present Christmas tradition from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree. Probably the most fundamental thing is to give gifts to children. Filled with subtle and destructive classics like "St. Nicholas and Christmas Carol Tour", Christmas battle captures the brilliant strangeness of the past.

"Christmas is often unable to completely satisfy the spirit or sensation.Why is this and why this is why and this is the subject of an attractive new study of the historian Stephen Nissenbaum"

Stephen Nissenbaum's Christmas Battle In the book "Battle of Christmas", Steven Nissenbaum analyzed in detail the Christmas celebration and the way we became a festival we know today. The book's title "Battle of Christmas" well reflects this transformation process. At every stage of Christmas change there is a battle to give up ideas and the meaning of holidays. Stephen Nissenbaum explains the reasons for the Christmas war and the influence of social change on the change of Christmas tradition. Everyone does not agree that Jesus was born in the winter, but in the 4th century AD the church set Christmas Day on September 25. The reason is that the church tried to Christianize the tradition of the old savage festival at the end of agriculture.

In his book "The Battle of Christmas", Stephen Nissenbaum explains the centuries of social change that contradicts the concept of Christmas celebration. Although it is impossible to prohibit Christmas holidays without serious consequences, Christmas is changing, not thrown away. When the reader began to understand the history of the holiday, he can understand that the real battle lasted for centuries and offered a contemporary form of Christmas. Between the old and new, the battle between the past and the future has many goals in this fight. It is the establishment of a Christian church, social stability, the introduction of ethics and values, and commercial success.

To understand why gifts for children (and gifts for adults gradually become part of this new Christmas tradition) it is necessary to extend the story of Nissenbaum. Christmas battle focused on the tension between New York elite and its working class but at the same time a middle class began to emerge in New York and other northern cities and the shape of Christmas Changing also fulfilled their purpose. Like their wealthy fellows, middle-class families are concerned about the effects of rapid population growth and expansion of market capitalists to children - expansion of goods and services offered by adults reduces the number of young people So especially. Family responsibility such as public education has not appeared yet