The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
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During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment and relaxation. However, by the middle of the century, a new type of park began to emerge, providing well-ordered, squeaky-clean, and carefully...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231127243
ISBN13:9780231127240
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 8.7"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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