| Description |
388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Scripting Las Vegas : noir naïfs, junking up, and the new strip / Norman M. Klein -- Las Vegas of the mind : shooting movies in and about Nevada / Francisco Menendez -- Discordant infrastructure / Peter Goin -- Growth, services, and the political economy of gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 / Eugene Moehring -- Lighting Las Vegas : electricity and the city of glitz / Jay Brigham -- Build it and the water will come / Jon Christensen -- The social costs of rapid urbanization in Southern Nevada / Robert E. Parker -- Rise to power : the recent history of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas / Courtney Alexander -- Class struggle in Oz / Mike Davis -- "Squeezing the juice out of Las Vegas" : reflections on growing up in Smalltown, USA / Brian Frehner -- I didn't know anybody lived there / Shannon McMackin -- How I became a native / William N. Thompson -- Inside the glitter : lives of casino workers / Kit Miller -- "She works hard for her money" : a reassessment of Las Vegas women workers, 1945-1985 / Joanne L. Goodwin -- The racial cauldron / Mike Davis -- Inside Jean / Constance Devereaux -- Looking into a dry lake : uncovering the women's view of Las Vegas / Amie Williams -- Colony, capital, and Casino : money in the real Las Vegas / Hal Rothman -- Who puts the "sin" in "Sin City" stories? Girls of grit and glitter in the city of women / Kathryn Hausbeck -- Nevada goes global : the foreign gaming rule and the spread of casinos / William N. Thompson -- Canto : Las Vegas / Richard Misrach. |
| Subject |
Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.
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Davis, Mike, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0520225384 paper acid-free paper |
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0520205294 cloth acid-free paper |
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