| Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century Contributor(s): Kasson, John F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809001330 ISBN-13: 9780809001330 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1978 Annotation: Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) |
| Dewey: 974.723 |
| LCCN: 78006762 |
| Series: American Century |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.8" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 132 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kasson, John F.: - John F. Kasson, who teaches history and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man; Amusing the Million; Rudeness and Civility; and Civilizing the Machine. |