Amusing the Million
Download or Read eBook Amusing the Million PDF written by John F. Kasson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : John F. Kasson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781429952231 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1429952237 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Amusing the Million by : John F. Kasson
Book excerpt: 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.
