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• catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12318631.
• catalog coverage "Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog coverage "Newport (R.I.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog coverage "Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 19th century.".
• catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Transforming resorts -- The creation of Saratoga Springs: taking the city with us -- The revival of Newport: the pilgrimage of fashion -- The rise of Coney Island: strangers in the land of the perpetual fete -- The public resort: to see and be seen -- The commercialization of Saratoga Springs: racetracks, casinos, and souvenirs -- The privitization of Newport: "coarseness and vulgarity are never seen here" -- "That was Coney as we loved it, and as the hand of Satan was upon it" -- The pursuit of privacy, profit, and pleasure.".
• catalog extent "ix, 374 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "First resorts.".
• catalog identifier "0801865867 (acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "First resorts.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "First resorts.".
• catalog spatial "Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "East (U.S.)".
• catalog spatial "Newport (R.I.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "973.5 21".
• catalog subject "E166 .S87 2001".
• catalog subject "Resorts East (U.S.) History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Tourism Social aspects United States History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Transforming resorts -- The creation of Saratoga Springs: taking the city with us -- The revival of Newport: the pilgrimage of fashion -- The rise of Coney Island: strangers in the land of the perpetual fete -- The public resort: to see and be seen -- The commercialization of Saratoga Springs: racetracks, casinos, and souvenirs -- The privitization of Newport: "coarseness and vulgarity are never seen here" -- "That was Coney as we loved it, and as the hand of Satan was upon it" -- The pursuit of privacy, profit, and pleasure.".
• catalog title "First resorts : pursuing pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island / Jon Sterngass.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".