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1 online resource (388 pages) |
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data file |
| 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. |
| Summary |
The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| 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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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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Economic history. |
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Social conditions. |
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Nevada -- Las Vegas. |
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Regions & Countries -- Americas. |
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History & Archaeology. |
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United States Local History. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.
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Davis, Mike, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The grit beneath the glitter Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520205294 (cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2001005925 |
| ISBN |
9780520935457 ebook |
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0520935454 |
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0520205294 cloth acid-free paper |
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0520225384 paper acid-free paper |
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1417525347 (electronic book) |
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9781417525348 (electronic book) |
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1597346438 |
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9781597346436 |
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9780520205291 |
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9780520225381 |
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