{"product_id":"the-playful-crowd-9780231127240","title":"The Playful Crowd","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores playful crowds and the pursuit of pleasure in the twentieth century to offer a transatlantic perspective on changing ideas about leisure, class, and mass culture. This book examines the resorts' different fates as Coney Island has become a shadow of its former self while Blackpool continues to lure visitors and offer attractions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial history at its best... Essential. Choice This book, which is vividly and engagingly written, makes a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a cultural phenomenon. The Times Higher Education Supplement ...A fascinating account of the changing nature of the pleasure-seeking crowd in the US and Britain during the twentieth century. -- Brad Beaven, University of Portsmouth Institute of Historical Research (UK) Engaging... fascinating... excellent... a model of collaborative scholarship, this book contributes much to the history of twentieth-century amusements. -- Susan Currell The American Historical Review The Playful Crowd succeeds admirably, both as comparative history and as a study of popular leisure. -- Scott C. Martin Journal of Social History A valuable book for students studying pleasure, leisure, and tourism. -- Auvo Kostiainen Annals of Tourism Research The Playful Crowd does what few studies of leisure have attempted--compare tourism across time and space. -- Thomas A. Chambers, Niagara University Winterthur Portfolio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400211145047,"sku":"9780231127240","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231127240.jpg?v=1730470075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-playful-crowd-9780231127240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}