Nicholas Rogers is Professor of History at York University. He is the co-author of Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (OUP) and the author of Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain (OUP), for which he received the 1999 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association for the best book on non-Canadian history.
"The best work so far on this increasingly important
holiday."--Publishers Weekly
"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
"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
"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
"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
"The best work so far on this increasingly important holiday."--Publishers Weekly "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 "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 "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 "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
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