Secondary Source List
Amusement Parks:
Adams, Judith. The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991.
Anderson, Norman. Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992.
Kasson, John. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
McCullough, Edo. Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey into the Past: The Most Rambunctious, Scandalous, Rapscallion, Splendiferous, Pugnacious, Spectacular, Illustrious, Prodigious. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2000.
Pilat, Oliver. Sodom by the Sea: An Affectionate History of Coney Island. New York: Doubleday Publishing, 1941.
Samuelson, Dale. The American Amusement Park. New York, NY: Motorbooks International, 2001.
Leisure and the Industrial Society:
Aron, Cindy S. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Erenberg, Lewis. Steppin’ Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930. London, England: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Glickman, Lawrence B. A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Hareven, Tamara K. Family Time and Industrial Time. London: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
McCrossen, Alexis. Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000.
Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century. New York: Temple University Press, 1987.
Rybcynski, Witold. Waiting for the Weekend. New York: Viking, 1991.
Smith, Page. The Rise of Industrial America – Volume 6. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Material Culture:
Mannis, William. Painted Ponies: American Carousel Art. New York, NY: Zon Publishing, 1986.
Papa, Carrie. The Carousel Keepers: The Oral History of American Carousels. New York, NY: McDonald and Woodward Publishing, 1998.
May, Lary. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Swensen, Marge. Looff: Photo Memoirs— Carousel Art: Special Edition Pictures. New York: Carousel Art Publishers, 1978.
New England:
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904.
Banvard, Joseph. A Guide to Providence River and Narragansett Bay from Providence to Newport. Providence: Coggeshall and Stewart, 1858.
Barrett, Richmond Brooks. Good Old Summer Days: Newport, Narragansett Pier, Saratoga, Long Branch, Bar Harbor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
Brown, Dona. Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
D’Amato, Donald. Warwick: Making of America. South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Dunbaugh, Edwin. Night Boat to New England, 1815-1900. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Goldsack, Bob. A Century of Fun: A Pictorial History of New England Amusement Parks. Nashua, NH: Midway Museum Publications, 1993.
Lemons, J. Stanley and George H. Kellner. Rhode Island: The Independent State. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, 1982.
Lewis, Rob. Rhode Island Amusement Parks. North Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
Sterngass, Jon. First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport & Coney Island. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Wonson, Richard. The Trackless Trolleys of Rhode Island. Boston, MA: Boston Street Railway Association, 1983.
Wyatt, Donald. Rocky Point: A Rhode Island Treasure. Warwick, RI: Beacon Publishing, 1997.
Nineteenth Century Popular Culture:
Bruce, Dickson D. And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1974.
Bogdan, Robert. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Cook, James W. The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Cook, James W. The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like it In the Universe. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Davis, Janet M. The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top. North Carolina: The University of Carolina Press, 2006.
Fuller, Kathryn H. At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiencees and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Gorn, Elliott. The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Harris, Neil. Humbug: The Art of P.T. Barnum. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1981
Hartzman, Marc. American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. New York: Penguin Group, 2005.
Hurley, Andrew. Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream, in Postwar Consumer Culture. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Kasson, John F. Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
Kasson, John F. Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth Century Urban America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990.
Steinmeyer, Jim. Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2003.
Taylor, James. Shocked and Amazed: On & Off the Midway. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2002.
Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Weiss, Ellen. City in the Woods: The Life and Design of an American Camp Meeting on Martha’s Vineyard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Popular Culture Theory:
Kammen, Michael. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Trachtenberg, Alan. Incorporation of America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
Technology:
Flayhart, William H. The American Line 1871-1902. New York: Norton, 2000.
Flexner, James Thomas. Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action. Boston, MA: Brown & Company, 1944.
Hale, Stuart O. “Paddle Wheels and Steam.” Narragansett Bay – A Friend’s Perspective. Providence, RI: University of Rhode Island, 1980.
Walker, Robert H. Life in the Age of Enterprise: 1865-1900. New York: Capricorn Books, 1971.
World’s Fairs / Carnivals:
McCullough, Edo. World’s Fair Midways. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
McKennon, Joe. A Pictorial History of the American Carnival. Sarasota, Florida: Carnival Publishers, 1972.
Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Rydell, Robert W. All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Journals:
Fleischman, Richard K. and Thomas N. Tyson. “Developing Expertise: Two Episodes in Early Nineteenth Century U.S. Management Accounting History.” Business and Economic History.
U.S. Census Bureau. “Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990.” Washington, D.C.: Population Division, June, 1998. http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027.html
