Kasson John F.
Kasson John F. - Amusing The Million Coney Island At The Turn Of The Century - Paperback
Kasson John F. - Amusing The Million Coney Island At The Turn Of The Century - Paperback
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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.
Title: Amusing The Million Coney Island At The Turn Of The Century
Author(s): Kasson John F.
Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780809001330
Pages: 132 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/1/1978
Category: History Of The Americas
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.
Title: Amusing The Million Coney Island At The Turn Of The Century
Author(s): Kasson John F.
Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780809001330
Pages: 132 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/1/1978
Category: History Of The Americas
