 John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978); Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986); Lewis...  Geschichte der Konsumgesellschaft - Page 475by Wolfgang König - 2000 - 509 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Louis P. Masur - History - 1999 - 562 pages
...Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 (Chicago, 1984), 2. 3. John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York, 1978); Russell Lewis, "Everything Under One Roof: World's Fairs and Department Stores in... | |
 | Milton Martin Klein - History - 2001 - 1102 pages
...as a place where residents pioneered new cultural forms and forged new cultural relations. See: John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York, 1978); Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower... | |
 | Kenneth L. Ames - History - 1985 - 246 pages
...1978); James J. Flink, The Car Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975). Other recent contributions include John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978); Robert E. Snow and David E. Wright, "Coney Island: A Case Study in Popular... | |
 | Alan J. Pifer, Lydia Bronte - Family & Relationships - 1986 - 456 pages
...tit. 23This description is from the August 1892 edition of Illustrated American Magazine, quoted in John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978), p. 45. 24Quoted in Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America (New... | |
 | Michael E. McGerr - Political participation - 1986 - 320 pages
...Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and AmericanSociety (Urbana, 111., 1983), 123-52;John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York, 1978); "The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890's," in John Higham, Writing American... | |
 | Kathy Peiss - Social Science - 1986 - 257 pages
...Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (New York, 1980); John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York, 1978). 6. Recent sociological studies of the working-class family include Lee Rainwater... | |
 | Steven A. Riess - History - 1991 - 372 pages
...(New York, 1975), 45-46; Albert F. McLean, American Vaudeville as Ritual (Lexington, 1965), 193-210; John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York, 1978), 57-86; Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion... | |
 | Elaine S. Abelson - History - 1992 - 322 pages
...43. 121. Ibid. See discussion of the light and fantasy at Coney Island in the early 20th century in John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 82-85. 122. Webster to Mr. Kline, May 22, 1919, "Personnel," Carton... | |
 | Nell Irvin Painter - History - 1989 - 458 pages
...the newly independent republic of Panama that allowed the United States to build and fortify the 1See John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (1978), pp- 3-9, 106-08. Francis G. Couvares calls the creators and purveyors of commercial mass culture... | |
 | Kathy J. Ogren - Music - 1992 - 240 pages
...1940) establishes a background for analyzing musical entertainment as one of many leisure-time choices. John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978) addresses the broad changes in leisure represented by the amusement... | |
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