The tradition of invention: Conceiving Las Vegas

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-23

  Douglass, William A ^a   Raento, Pauliina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Invention; Las Vegas; Simulacra

Indexed keywords

GAMBLING; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1442264990     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2003.05.001     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Davis, M. 1999-2000 Las Vegas vs. Nature. Neon (Winter):np. Nevada Arts Council.
2. Denton S. Morris R. The Money and the Power. The Making of Las Vegas and its Hold on America, 1947-2000 2001 Alfred A. Knopf New York
3. Davies R. The Maverick Spirit. Building the New Nevada 1999 University of Nevada Press Reno
4. Dombrink J. Thompson W. The Last Resort: Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos 1990 University of Nevada Press Reno
5. Douglass J. Douglass W. Tap Dancing on Ice: The Life and Times of a Nevada Gaming Pioneer 1996 University of Nevada, Reno Oral History Program Reno
6. Eco U. Travels in Hyperreality 1986 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers San Diego
7. Edwards J. From Back Alley to Main Street: Nevada's Acceptance of Gambling Nevada Historical Quarterly 33 1990 16-27
8. Findlay J. People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas 1986 Oxford University Press New York
9. Friedman B. Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition 2000 University of Nevada, Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming Reno
10. Gottdiener M. Collins C. Dickens D. Las Vegas: The Social Production of an All-American City 1999 Blackwell Oxford
11. Hobsbawm E. Ranger T. The Invention of Tradition 1992 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
12. Hughes R. Wynn Win? Time 52 17 1998 76-81
13. Jameson F. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism New Left Review 146 1984 53-92
14. MacCannell D. The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class 1976 University of California Press Berkeley
15. MacCannell J. Las Vegas: The Post-Cinematic City Performance Research 6 1 2001 46-64
16. McCracken R. Las Vegas: The Great American Playground 1997 University of Nevada Press Reno
17. McMurtry L. Inventing the West The New York Review of Books 47 130 2000 24
18. Moehring E. Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-1970 1989 University of Nevada Press Reno
19. O'Brien J. Leaving Las Vegas 1990 Watermark Press Wichita
20. Pileggi N. Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas 1995 Simon and Schuster New York
21. Raento P. Douglass W. The Naming of Gaming Names 48 2001 1-31
22. Raymond E. George Wingfield: Owner and Operator of Nevada 1992 University of Nevada Press Reno
23. Roske R. Gambling in Nevada: The Early Years, 1861-1931 Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 33 1990 28-40
24. Shepperson W. Harvey A. Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada 1989 University of Nevada Press Reno
25. Smith H. I Want to Quit Winners 1961 Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs NJ
26. Sorkin M. Post-Sin City: America's Archetypal Fantasy City Comes to Life with Pirates, Pyramids and Perpetual Motion. A Critic Decodes the Riddle that is the New Las Vegas Magazine of International Design 41 2 1994 44-51
27. Sorkin M. Gambling on the Triumph of "Taste" in Las Vegas Metropolis April 1999 59-61
28. Thompson H. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 1971 Random House New York
29. Turner F. The Frontier in American History 1920 H. Holt and Co New York
30. US Bureau of the Census 1913 Population 1910 (Vol. III). Washington DC: US Government Printing Office.
31. US Bureau of the Census 1943 Characteristics of the Population 1940 (Vol. II). Washington DC: US Government Printing Office.
32. US Bureau of the Census 1952 1950 Census. Characteristics of the Population 1950 (Vol. II). Washington DC: US Government Printing Office.
33. Venturi R. Brown D. Izenour S. Learning from Las Vegas 1972 MIT Press Cambridge
34. Wolfe T. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flaked Streamlined Baby 1965 Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York