Selling Leisure, Fashion, Travel, and Entertainment [index]

Adams, Bluford.  E. Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Barringer, Mark Daniel.  Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature.  Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2002.

Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, ed. Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Brekke, Linzy A.  “Fashioning America: Clothing, Consumerism, and the Politics of Appearance in the Early Republic.”  PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2007.

Brown, Dona.  Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century.  Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

Bushman, Richard L.  The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities.  New York: Knopf, 1992.

Butsch, Richard, ed.  For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.*

Currell, Susan.  The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Dolan, Brian.  Inventing Entertainment: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Dye, Victoria E.   All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Erdman, Andrew L.  Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.

Fox, Charles Philip, and Tom Parkinson.  Billers, Banners, and Bombast: The Story of Circus Advertising.  Boulder: Pruett Publishing, 1985.

Freeland, David.  Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Gragg, Larry. “Selling ‘Sin City’: Successfully Promoting Las Vegas during the Great Depression, 1935–1941.”  Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 49 (Summer 2006): 83–106.

Greer, L. Sue.  "The United States Forest Service and the Postwar Commodification of Outdoor Recreation." In  Richard Butsch, ed.  For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Grover, Kathryn, ed.  Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

Hardin, Robin, and Carol Zuegner.  "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Golf Balls: Magazine Promotion of Golf During the 1920s."  Journalism History 29:2 (Summer 2003): 82-90.

Hill, Daniel Delis.  As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American of American Fashion in Advertising.  Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004.

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle.  “The American Hotel in Postcard Advertising: An Image Gallery.”  Material Culture 37 (Fall 2005): 1–25.

Jones, Karen R., and John Wills.  The Invention of the Park: Recreational Landscapes from the Garden of Eden to Disney’s Magic Kingdom.  Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005

Julin, Suzanne Barta. “Building a Vacationland: Tourism Development in the Black Hills during the Great Depression.” South Dakota History 35 (Winter 2005): 291–314.

Kasson, John F.  Amusing the Million: Coney Island and Turn of the Century New York.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.

Kitch, Carolyn.  "A Genuine, Vivid Personality: Newspaper Coverage and Construction of a 'Real' Advertising Celebrity in a Pioneering Publicity Campaign."  Journalism History 31:3 (Fall 2005): 122-137.  (Phoebe Snow, Lackawanna Railroad)

McGee, Mark Thomas.  Beyond Ballyhoo: Motion Pictures Promotion and Gimmicks.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989.

Meethan, Kevin.  Tourism in a Global Society: Place, Culture, and Consumption.  New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Nasaw, David.  Going Out.  New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Peiss, Kathy.  Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Pillen, Cory. “See America: WPA Posters and the Mapping of a New Deal Democracy.” Journal of American Culture 31 (March 2008): 49–65.   

Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours For What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1980.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Rhodes, Gary D.  “The Origin and Development of the American Movie Picture Poster.”  Film History 19:3 (2007): 228-246.

Rothman, Hal K., ed.  The Culture of Tourism, The Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Runte, A.  "Promoting Wonderland: Western Railroads and the Evolution of National Park Advertising."  Journal of the West 31 (January 1992): 43-49.

Scranton, Philip, and Warren Belasco, eds.  Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies.  New York: Routledge, 2001.

Shaffer, Marguerite S.  "See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1905-1930."  PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1994.

Spears, Timothy B.  "All Things to All Men: The Commercial Traveler and the Rise of Modern Salesmanship."  American Quarterly 45:4 (1993): 524-557.

Strauss, Bob, and Beverly Strauss.  American Sporting Advertising.  2 vol.  Camden, ME: Camden Printing, 1987-1990.

Sweeney, Russell C.  Coming Next Week: A Pictorial History of Film Advertising.  New York: Castle Books, 1973.

Thurot, J.M.  "Ideology and Class and Tourism: Confronting the Discourse of Advertising."  Annals of Tourism Research 10:1 (1983): 173-189.

Walsh, Margaret.  "See This Amazing America:  The Long Distance Bus Industry's Use of Advertising in its First Quarter Century."  Journal of Transport History 11 (March 1990): 61-88.

Zega, Michael E.  "Advertising the Southwest."  Journal of the Southwest 43 (Autumn 2001): 281-315.

Zega, Michael E., and John E. Gruber.  Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.