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" The grit beneath the glitter : "
edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis.
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965648
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b720018
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The grit beneath the glitter : : tales from the real Las Vegas /\ edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis.
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (388 pages) :: illustrations
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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
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0520225384
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9780520205291
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9780520225381
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Economic history.
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History Archaeology.
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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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Regions Countries - Americas.
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Social conditions
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United States Local History.
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Las Vegas (Nev.), Economic conditions, 20th century.
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Las Vegas (Nev.), History, 20th century.
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Las Vegas (Nev.), Social conditions, 20th century.
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Nevada, Las Vegas.
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| Dewey Classification
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979.3/135
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F849.L35G75 2002eb
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Davis, Mike,1946-
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Rothman, Hal,1958-2007.
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