Amusing the Million Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

Name: Amusing the Million Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
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ISBN: 9780809001330

ISBN-10: 0809001330

ISBN-13: 9780809001330

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Authors: John F. Kasson

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 8/1/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

John F. Kasson, who teaches history & American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of "Amusing the Million" (H&W, 1978), "Rudeness & Civility" (H&W, 1990), & "Civilizing the Machine" (H&W, 1999).