With Amusement for All

With Amusement for All
Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2006-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813123976

With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

More Than Mere Amusement

More Than Mere Amusement
Author: Catriona M. Parratt
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781555534943

This groundbreaking study surveys how working-class women, restricted by gender, time, and financial means, as well as cultural and social tensions, managed to find spheres of leisure and recreation.