 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
 | Jessica H. Foy, Karal Ann Marling - Art - 1995 - 228 pages
...Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1986) and John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978). clarified the fact that this was a time when primary allegiances were... | |
 | William R. Taylor - History - 1996 - 532 pages
...Applebaum. and How-ard Easier, all conducted in New York City, 1983-1984. 45. Following the points in John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 39-W. Also Schwartz interview. 46. "For New Theatre," Staten Islander... | |
 | Robert E. Weir - Business & Economics - 2010 - 370 pages
...send messages, leisure 132. JKL, February 9, 1893; March 23, 1893. 133. Ibid., November 16, 1893. 134. John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 17-28. became something to be consumed for the sheer joy of experiencing... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Baker - Incubators (Pediatrics) - 1996 - 278 pages
...objections to raising such infants on the Midway. "Artificial Foster-Mother," 461; Brisbane, 516. 45. John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 9. 46. Bogdan, 56; Kasson, 50. 47. Edo McCuIlough, Good Old Coney... | |
 | Donald L. Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 726 pages
...Tower and the Ferris Wheel," Arts Magazine 54 (Feb. 8, 1980): 170-73. 497 "We Americans": Quoted in John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (1978): 58. 497 Midway: [MP Handy], World's Columbian Exposition, Official Catalogue (1893), 10-20.... | |
 | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 426 pages
...Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson, Sodom by the Sea (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1941), 179. 15. John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 3, 8; Andrea Stulman Dennett and Nina Warnke, "Disaster Spectacles... | |
 | David E. Ruth - History - 1996 - 217 pages
...Finger Points, 1931; Columbia, Murder on the Roof, 1930; Warner Brothers, Weary River, 1929. 20. John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978); Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the... | |
 | Cindy Sondik Aron - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...Essays on Modern Scholarship, ed. John Higham (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970), 73-102; John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978). 8. "Strictly Personal," NCR News 1 (August 1914): 3, NCR. 9. "Up the... | |
 | Robert A. Orsi - Religion - 1999 - 424 pages
...Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983); John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978). The complaints against recent southern arrivals by northern African... | |
 | John F. Kasson - History - 1999 - 294 pages
...compelling examination. " — NEIL HARRIS, The New Republic CIVILIZING THE MACHINE This One Also by John F. Kasson Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America CIVILIZING THE MACHINE TECHNOLOGY... | |
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