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"In First Resorts: 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social life and customs, Resorts, Social aspects of Tourism, Social conditions, Tourism, History, United states, social life and customs, United states, social conditions, Rhode island, social life and customs, New york (state), social life and customs, Social aspects, Tourisme, Aspect social, Histoire, Lieux de villégiature, Mœurs et coutumes, Conditions sociales, Manners and customs, Badplaatsen (recreatie), ToerismePlaces
United States, Newport (R.I.), Saratoga Springs (N.Y.), Coney Island (New York, N.Y.), East (U.S.)Times
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2003, Johns Hopkins University Press
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2001, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-358) and index.
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