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The mass protests that greeted attempts to open the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on a Sunday seem almost comical today in an era of seven-day convenience and twenty-four-hour shopping. But the issue of the meaning of Sunday is one that has historically given rise to a wide range of strong emotions and pitted a surprising variety of social, religious, and class interests against one another. Whether observed as a day for rest, or time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week.
Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces conflicts over the meaning of Sunday that have shaped the day in the United States since 1800. She investigates cultural phenomena such as blue laws and the Sunday newspaper, alongside representations of Sunday in the popular arts. Holy Day, Holiday attends to the history of religion, as well as the histories of labor, leisure, and domesticity.
- Autor/a Alexis McCrossen
- ISBN13 9780801487873
- ISBN10 0801487870
- Pàgines 209
- Any Edició 2026
- Fecha de publicación 03/05/2026
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday (Alemany, Francès)
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- Alexis McCrossen
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- Cornell University Press (2026)
- 9780801487873



