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Book Review
The Playful Crowd. Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
2009
Overview
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) In this book Cross and Walton employ four major \"pleasure places\" to discuss developments in the amusement industry and the evolution of western leisure preferences. While the authors acknowledge that \"American commitment to novelty and mobility, and British tradition and class stability\" (55) may have shaped the pursuit of pleasure in the two countries, they carefully consider the influence of location, climate, means of transport, length of season, land holding patterns, political alliances, and more distinctive factors. In the second half of the book Cross and Walton argue that the emergence of a middle-class crowd focused on children and child fantasies gave rise to amusement parks catering to nostalgia for innocence and wonder.
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Cambridge University Press
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