American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915 (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 244
Utgivningsdatum: 2013-09-30
Förlag: McFarland & Co Inc
Illustrationer: 84 photographs (17 are in colour), 15 charts
Dimensioner: 251 x 175 x 15 mm
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ISBN: 9780786478170

American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915

Name: American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915
Price: 700.00 SEK
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Author: Daniel Gifford
ISBN: 9780786478170

Imagery and Context

av Daniel Gifford

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-09-30

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In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture. Millions of such postcards circulated among networks of community and kin as part of a larger American postcard craze. However, their uses and meanings were far from universal. This book argues that holiday postcards circulated primarily among rural and small town, Northern, white women with Anglo-Saxon and Germanic heritages. Through analysis of a broad range of sources, Daniel Gifford recreates the history of postcards to account for these specific audiences, and reconsiders the postcard phenomenon as an image-based conversation among exclusive groups of Americans. A variety of narratives are thus revealed: the debates generated by the Country Life Movement; the empowering manifestations of the New Woman; the civic privileges of whiteness; and the role of emerging technologies. From Santa Claus to Easter bunnies, flag-waving turkeys to gun-toting cupids, holiday postcards at first seem to be amusing expressions of a halcyon past. Yet with knowledge of audience and historical conflicts, this book demonstrates how the postcard images reveal deep divides at the height of the Progressive Era.

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"a wonderful addition to the popular culture scholarship"--Journal of American Culture; "a serious cultural study of 2,000 postcards, analyzing them in as many statistical ways as possible"--eNews The Ephemera Society of America.

Daniel Gifford works at the Smithsonian Institution and serves as a part-time faculty member with the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.