9780809001330-0809001330-Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)

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

ISBN-13: 9780809001330
ISBN-10: 0809001330
Edition: Illustrated
Author: John F. Kasson
Publication date: 1978
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback 132 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780809001330
ISBN-10: 0809001330
Edition: Illustrated
Author: John F. Kasson
Publication date: 1978
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback 132 pages

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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) (ISBN-13: 9780809001330 and ISBN-10: 0809001330), written by authors John F. Kasson, was published by Hill and Wang in 1978. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.35.

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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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