Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) - Softcover

Kasson, John F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809001330 ISBN 13: 9780809001330

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1978

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

John F. Kasson, who teaches history and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man, Amusing the Million, Rudeness and Civility, and Civilizing the Machine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0809001330
• ISBN 13: 9780809001330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132