Amusing The Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

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ISBN: 9780809001330
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Language: English
Page Count: 119
Publication Date: 1/1/2000
Size: 8.45" l x 7.09" w x 0.53"
Series: American Century

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 in this lively thesis.

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