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Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History
Series Editor: Michael Green (UNLV)
Nevada is known politically as a swing state and culturally as a swinging state. Politically, its electoral votes have gone to the winning presidential candidate in all but one election since 1912 (it missed in 1976), and its geographical location in the Sunbelt, ethnic diversity, heavily urban and fast-growing population, and economy based on tourism and mining make it a laboratory for understanding the growth and development of postwar America and post-industrial society. Culturally, Nevada has been associated with legal gambling, easy divorce, and social permissiveness. Yet the state also exemplifies the conflict between image and reality: it also is a conservative state that depends heavily on the federal government; its gaming regulatory system is the envy of the world but resulted from long and difficult experience with organized crime; its bright lights often obscure the importance that organized religion plays in Nevada affairs. To some who have emphasized the impact of globalization and celebrated or deplored changing moral standards, it reflects America and the world; to others, it affects them.
This series is named in honor of one of the state’s most distinguished historians, author of numerous books on the state’s immigrants and cultural development, a longtime educator, and an advocate for history and the humanities. This series welcomes manuscripts on any and all aspects of Nevada that offer insight into how the state has developed, and how its development has been connected to the region, nation, and world around it.
Westside SluggerJoe Neal's Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
The Sagebrush State, 6th EditionNevada's History, Government, and Politics
Gambling With LivesA History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas
Sagebrush State, 5th EditionNevada's History, Government, and Politics
Landing in Las VegasCommercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City
Great Basin MosaicThe Cultures of Rural Nevada
Charcoal and BloodItalian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre
Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
Senator Howard Cannon of NevadaA Biography
Civilian Conservation Corps in NevadaFrom Boys to Men
John MackaySilver King in the Gilded Age
Water Politics in Northern NevadaA Century of Struggle, Second Edition
Reno, Las Vegas, and the StripA Tale of Three Cities
Changing the GameWomen at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990
Main EventBoxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip
St. Thomas, NevadaA History Uncovered
River and the RailroadAn Archaeological History of Reno
Jews in NevadaA History
Making of Modern Nevada
More Peoples of Las VegasOne City, Many Faces
Nevada's Historic BuildingsA Cultural Legacy
Infamous King Of The ComstockWilliam Sharon And The Gilded Age In The West
Nevada's Environmental LegacyProgress or Plunder
Devils Will ReignHow Nevada Began
Boomtown SaloonsArchaeology And History In Virginia City
Las VegasA Centennial History
Peoples Of Las VegasOne City, Many Faces
Silver State, 3rd EditionNevada'S Heritage Reinterpreted
Academic Freedom ImperiledThe Mccarthy Era At The University Of Nevada
Uncovering Nevada's PastA Primary Source History of the Silver State
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