Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century.
by John F. Kasson
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket condition good
- ISBN 10
- 0809026171
- ISBN 13
- 9780809026173
- Seller
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Monkey House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12388
- Title
- Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century.
- Author
- John F. Kasson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket condition good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0809026171
- ISBN 13
- 9780809026173
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- HMR, New York City beaches amusement parks sideshows Brooklyn
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