..., that this is the global age. There are certainly those, not least of them the advocates of unrestricted capital flow, who claim that the world should be open to them, but that does not mean that they have got their way. Many critics of market tyranny, social democrats who lament the alleged decline of the nation-state...

...This chapter suggests that the holiday opened space for the construction and enactment of social and political difference, and notes that in the late nineteenth century, German Jews, Social Democrats, and working-class Germans shaped their own versions of Christmas. It explains that the alternative...