TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cross,Gary
AU  - Walton,John
TI  - The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
SN  - 9780231502832
AV  - GV1851.A35 
U1  - 791 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Amusement parks - Social aspects - England - History - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Making the Popular Resort: Coney Island and Blackpool About 1900 -- 2. Industrial Saturnalia and the Playful Crowd -- 3. The Crowd and its Critics -- 4. Decline and Reinvention: Coney Island and Blackpool -- 5. The Disney Challenge -- 6. "Enrichment through Enjoyment": The Beamish Museum in a Theme Park Age -- 7. The Crowd Transformed? -- Notes -- Index
N2  - 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 heade
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