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The Playful Crowd : Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century

Cross, Gary S.,i1946- [Verfasser] ; Walton, John K.,i1948-

New York : Columbia University Press, 2005

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)

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978-0-231-50283-2 ; 978-0-231-12724-0

NW 2200 LB 61000

 

USA  Großbritannien  Freizeitpark  Geschichte 1900-2000 

 

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.