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Holiday Seasons

New Year, Easter and Christmas in 19th Century New Zealand [Paperback]

by Alison Clarke

    • Author

      Alison Clarke

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Auckland University Press

    • Published

      March 2007

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      Product Description

      In this entertaining and lively book, Alison Clarke shows how colonial settlers from the northern hemisphere adapted the age-old festivals of Christmas, New Year and Easter to a new world of upside-down seasons, unfamiliar vegetation and cultural diversity. They decorated their homes with pohutukawa at Christmas and ate green peas and new potatoes; they went to the races at New Year and on hunting trips at Easter. But they still ate plum pudding on 25 December, went first footing at New Year and observed Easter with traditional services and hot cross buns. Catholics and Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians had different priorities in celebrating Christian festivals, and the friction between those who wanted a day off to picnic and those who wanted to worship at church was integral to the development of these holidays in New Zealand. Similarly, we owe many of our festive customs to the differences between the English, Irish and Scottish ways of celebrating their holidays. "Holiday Seasons" reminds us that along with vision, dedication and a capacity for hard work, our forebears also brought jollity and frivolity.

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      • Author

        Alison Clarke

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Auckland University Press

      • Published

        March 2007

      • Weight

        500g

      • Page Count

        200

      • Dimensions

        150 x 200 x 150 mm

      • ISBN

        9781869403829

      • ISBN-10

        1869403827

      • Eden Code

        3933218

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      • Author/Creator: Alison Clarke

      • ISBN: 9781869403829

      • Publisher: Auckland University Press

      • Release Date: March 2007

      • Weight: 500g

      • Dimensions: 150 x 200 x 150 mm

      • Eden Code: 3933218

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