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Amusing the Million : Coney Island at the Turn of the Century by John F. Kasson (1978, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100809001330
ISBN-139780809001330
eBay Product ID (ePID)583998

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Book TitleAmusing the Million : Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
Number of Pages132 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Popular Culture, Special Interest / Amusement & Theme Parks
Publication Year1978
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Social Science, History
AuthorJohn F. Kasson
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight6.7 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width7.1 in

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Reviews"This is what a history of popular culture should be: a delightful account of a fascinating subject and a serious contribution to our understanding of major transition in American culture."--John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago "Because he treats our frivolities seriously, John Kasson has produced an important book which helps us all understand ourselves. His inquiry into the nature and significance of Coney Island as part of the American experience provides a brilliant device for understanding major transformations in American culture at the turn of the century...A delight to read, look at, and ponder...itself a great amusement for the mind."--Warren Susman, Rutgers University "Not only delightful reading but a perceptive look at a familiar American institution..Social-cultural history ought to be done this way more often."--Russel B. Nye, Michigan State University, "This is what a history of popular culture should be: a delightful account of a fascinating subject and a serious contribution to our understanding of major transition in American culture." -- John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago "Because he treats our frivolities seriously, John Kasson has produced an important book which helps us all understand ourselves. His inquiry into the nature and significance of Coney Island as part of the American experience provides a brilliant device for understanding major transformations in American culture at the turn of the century...A delight to read, look at, and ponder...itself a great amusement for the mind." -- Warren Susman, Rutgers University "Not only delightful reading but a perceptive look at a familiar American institution..Social-cultural history ought to be done this way more often." -- Russel B. Nye, Michigan State University, Because he treats our frivolities seriously, John Kasson has produced an important book which helps us all understand ourselves. His inquiry into the nature and significance of Coney Island as part of the American experience provides a brilliant device for understanding major transformations in American culture at the turn of the century...A delight to read, look at, and ponder...itself a great amusement for the mind., This is what a history of popular culture should be: a delightful account of a fascinating subject and a serious contribution to our understanding of major transition in American culture., Not only delightful reading but a perceptive look at a familiar American institution..Social-cultural history ought to be done this way more often.
Dewey Decimal301.29/747/23
SynopsisConey 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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