9780801865862 - First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport & Coney Island: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island von Sterngass, Jon (7 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good to fine with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped at spine tips and is lightly soiled at bottom back edge ans at top of spine. 374 pages with index and 59 illustrations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. VINTAGESTAN BOOKS Title: First Resorts. Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island Summary: "At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Saratoga Springs hosted no more than a thousand hardy travellers yearly, Newport floundered in the midst of a fifty-year commercial decline, and Coney Island's beach resembled a wind-swept wilderness. A hundred years later, the number of summer visitors to Saratoga had increased a hundredfold, the antics of high society at Newport transfixed America, and at least five million pleasure seekers visited Coney annually. 'Those who talk of the mushroom growth of our Western cities,' declared an astounded writer for Harper's Weekly in 1878, 'might better spend their wonder and enthusiasm upon our Eastern watering-place." From the Introduction in First Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island, Jon Sterngass follows three of the best-known northeastern American resorts across a century of change. Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island began, he finds, as similar pleasure destinations, each of them featuring "grand" hotels where visitors swarmed public spaces such as verandas, dining rooms, and parlors. As the century progressed, however, Saratoga remained much the same, while Newport turned to private (and lavish) "cottages" and Coney Island shifted its focus to amusements for the masses. Fifty-nine illustrations enliven Sterngass's unique study of the commodification of pleasure that occurred as capitalist values flourished, travel grew more accessible, and leisure time became democratized. These three resorts, he argues, served as forerunners of twentieth-century pleasure cities such as Aspen, Las Vegas, and Orlando. Author: Jon Sterngass Publisher: John Hopkins University Press. Baltimore and London Year Published: 2001 Edition: 1st Edition Dimensions: 26cm x 18cm Binding type: Hardcover ISBN: 9780801865862 Notes: SKU: VSS / 261 / G / 7018 / 5362 Condition Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Handling marks, marks Book condition: Good. Handling marks, marks Binding: Intact Pages: 374 pages.