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The grit beneath the glitter :

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0520935454

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1417525347

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1597346438

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9780520935457

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9781417525348

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9781597346436

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0520205294

Erroneous ISBN

0520225384

Erroneous ISBN

9780520205291

Erroneous ISBN

9780520225381

Number

b720018

Title Proper

The grit beneath the glitter :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

tales from the real Las Vegas /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (388 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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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.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/cttt22cq

Title

Grit beneath the glitter.

International Standard Book Number

0520225384

Economic history.

History & Archaeology.

HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.

HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Regions & Countries - Americas.

Social conditions

United States Local History.

Las Vegas (Nev.), Economic conditions, 20th century.

Las Vegas (Nev.), History, 20th century.

Las Vegas (Nev.), Social conditions, 20th century.

Nevada, Las Vegas.

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HIS036140

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Edition

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Book number

Davis, Mike,1946-

Rothman, Hal,1958-2007.

Date of Transaction

20201208115055.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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