Background
Kasson, John Franklin was born on October 20, 1944 in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Son of Robert Edwin and Mary Louise (Shirk) Kasson.
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Amusing the Million Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) by Kasson, John F. (1978) Paperback
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
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By John F Kasson - Amusing The Million (12.2.1983)
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
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With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic society.
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Amusing the Million (text only) by J. F. Kasson
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) PaperbackJohn F. Kasson (Author)
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Rudeness & Civility Manners in Nineteenth Century Urban America
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America
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Rudeness & Civility: Manners In Nineteenth Century America, by Kasson, John F.
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Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900
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A major theme of American history has always been the desire to achieve a genuinely republican way of life that values liberty, order, and virtue. In Civilizing the Machine, John F. Kasson asks how new technologies have affected this drive for a republican civilization-and the question is as vital now as ever. Civilizing the Machine was an innovative and compelling work when it first appeared two decades ago: Kasson's analysis of the technical developments in transportation, communication, and manufacture from the Revolution to the of the nineteenth century showed how technologies were dealt with in sources as diverse as the debates of Hamilton and Jefferson; the factories of Lowell, Massachusetts; the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson; the prints of Currier & Ives; and the utopian and dystopian novels of Howells and Twain. His profound, wide-ranging inquiry into this central issue in American history is now available again with a new Introduction by the author.
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Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 by Kasson, John F. (1999) Paperback
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America 1st edition by Kasson, John F. (1990) Hardcover
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- Civilizing The Machine: Technology And Republican Values In American, 1776-1900
- Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America by John F. Kasson (1991-09-01)
- Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America by Kasson, John F.(September 1, 1991) Paperback (New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)
John Franklin Kasson
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Bachelor of Arts in History magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies, Yale University, 1971.
Career
Assistant professor of history, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1971-1976; associate professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1976-1981; professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1981; also Adjunct Professor American studies, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
( Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of ...)
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Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900
(A major theme of American history has always been the des...)
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Amusing the Million (text only) by J. F. Kasson
(Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Cent...)
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America
(Rudeness & Civility: Manners In Nineteenth Century Americ...)
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
( With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson expl...)
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America by Kasson, John F.(September 1, 1991) Paperback
(New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)
- Civilizing The Machine: Technology And Republican Values In American, 1776-1900
- Amusing the Million Publisher: Hill and Wang
- Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America by John F. Kasson (1991-09-01)
- Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) by Kasson, John F. (1978) Paperback
- By John F Kasson - Amusing The Million (12.2.1983)
- Rudeness & Civility Manners in Nineteenth Century Urban America
- Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 by Kasson, John F. (1999) Paperback
- Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America 1st edition by Kasson, John F. (1990) Hardcover
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
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Married Joy Ellen Schlesinger, December 22, 1968. Children: Peter, Laura.
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1966
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1971