{"product_id":"halloween-9780195168969","title":"Halloween","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoasting a rich, complex history in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This survey of Halloween, its cultural origins and development, will tell you everything you need to know, and possibly more. With a topic this intriguing, the author doesn't need tricks to come up with a treat.\"--The Montreal Gazette\u003cbr\u003e\"The best work so far on this increasingly important holiday.\"--Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"Performs the heroic service of taking all the stuff in stores seriously, as instruments in the creation of a new unreligious holiday of some significance, if the retailers are to be believed.... They say that the devil is in the details, and Rogers is a connoisseur of delicious tidbits of macabre.\"--New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Halloween is a rich mix of historical detail and keen cultural observation about the holiday in North America. He reaches far back to the festival's pagan roots and follows its development into a unique celebration of liminality, cultural borrowing, and outrageous invention. Halloween is surely an important contribution to a growing literature that takes seriously our moments of play.\"--Penne Restad, author of Christmas in America: A History\u003cbr\u003e\"This book paints its subject in very broad strokes, giving us a glimpse of an increasingly significant holiday over a vast expanse of space and time. How delightful, too, to read about an event through a North American, rather than strictly American perspective.\"--Jack Kugelmass, author of Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766889611607,"sku":"9780195168969","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195168969.jpg?v=1758711534","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/halloween-9780195168969","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}