It takes the average reader 6 hours and 7 minutes to read Consumer Rites by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Reexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from the mid-eighteenth century through the twentieth, the author offers a reassessment of the "consumer rites"...
Consumer Rites by Leigh Eric Schmidt is 363 pages long, and a total of 91,839 words.
This makes it 123% the length of the average book. It also has 112% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 21 minutes to read Consumer Rites aloud.
Consumer Rites is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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