 | The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island Subjects: Amusement parks -- England -- History; Amusement parks -- United States -- History; Resorts -- England -- History; Resorts -- United States -- History; Amusements -- England -- History; Amusements -- United States -- History; The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth. Jonathan Conlin is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton and author of Civilisation and The Nation's Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery. |
