Neon Metropolis - How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century

List of contents

Introduction Part I: Making Money 1. Inventing Modern Las Vegas 2. It's Hard to Be Elvis in Las Vegas: Entertainment in the Malleable Metropolis 3. The Last Detroit: The New Service Economy 4. Freedom and Limits in a City of Pleasure Part II: Filling Las Vegas 5. The New Emigrant Trail 6. The Face of the Future 7. Aztlan in Neon: Latinos in the New City Part III: Building a New City 8. The Tortoise and the Air: Life in a Libertarian Desert 9. Rolling to a Stop: The Weight of Traffic 10. The Instant Metropolis: Building a City without Basements or Closets 11. Community from Nothingness: Neighborhoods of Affinity Epilogue

About the author

Hal Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the editor of the journal Environmental History. The author of Devil's Bargains:Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West, Rothman is a frequent commentator on Las Vegas. He has been featured on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, and in The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal and in the four-hour A&E Television Network documentary, LasVegas.

Summary

Combining a history of the city's growth via gambling and crime, with a descriptive social portrait of contemporary Las Vegas, "Neon Metropolis" offers a panoramic account of America's capital of excess and now its fastest growing city.

Product details

• Authors: Hal Rothman
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2002
• EAN: 9780415926126
• ISBN: 978-0-415-92612-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Weight: 703 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nevada, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Urban communities