Hal Rothman

Neon Metropolis (eBook, ePUB)

How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317958529
• Artikelnr.: 43982600

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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