The Playful Crowd: Pleasure

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The Playful Crowd: Pleasure

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Package Size

21.6cm x 17.8cm x 2.4cm

Gross Weight

618g

Author

Gary S. Cross

Author

John K. Walton

Format

Hardback

Pages

352

Width

178.00 mm

Height

216.00 mm

Thickness

24.00 mm

ISBN

9780231127240

ISBN10

0231127243

BISAC Category Code

BUS081000

BIC Time Period Qualifier

3JJ

Dewey

790.0904

LC Classification

GV1851.A35

Nielsen BookScan Product Class

T8.4

BIC Subject Category

WTB

Publisher

The University Press Group Ltd

Publication date

16 September 2005

Country

United States

City

New York

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• "Gary Cross and John Walton have long proved imaginative practitioners of the history of leisure. In The Playful Crowd they weave together their mutual interests to produce a book of genuine originality and arresting significance. Their account of the transformation of popular spectacle and pleasure -- the playful crowd on both sides of the Atlantic over the past century -- is a comparative history characterized by a lively narrative and arresting detail. It is an important account of the changes in modern urban pleasures in both Britain and the U.S.A. a book which is a benchmark for future scholars in the field and a model of how to devise and shape the complexities of comparative history." -- James Walvin, professor of history, University of York, author of The People's Game: The History of Football Revisited "Gary Cross and John Walton provide us with a richly packed and appropriately stimulating ride through the people's playgrounds of Britain and the U.S. across more than a century. A model of collaborative scholarship and incisive cross-cultural comparative analysis, The Playful Crowd opens up important questions about modern regimes of pleasure, a hitherto neglected or unduly pathologized topic. This is a work of major significance in the fields of leisure, popular culture, consumerism, and social and cultural history in general." -- Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba, author of Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City "Cross and Walton's well-researched and elegantly written study tracks the historical trajectories of popular resorts, theme parks, and open air museums in the U.S. and Britain. The result is a fascinating and nuanced book that attends to the diverse regional, national, and entrepreneurial factors that shaped these designed and mostly commercial places. It also takes seriously the generative capacities and leisure practices of the 'playful crowds' themselves. A lively, intelligent, and pleasurable read!" -- Ellen Furlough, University of Kentucky, coeditor of Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe and North America

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About this book, the "The Playful Crowd: Pleasure" author(s):

Gary Cross is professor of history at Penn State and the author of An All-Consuming Century (CUP, 2000); Time and Money: The Making of Consumerist Modernity (Routledge, 1993; A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 (University of California Press, 1989) and A Social History of Leisure since 1600 (Venture, 1990)

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