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.
Nevada’s politics are in large measure the result of its turbulent history and harsh environment. Michael W. Bowers’s concise volume explains the dynamics of the political formation process, which is strikingly unique among the fifty states. Even today, Nevada is unlike the other states in its politics and culture: economically right, yet libertarian and home to widespread gaming and a 24/7 lifestyle. It has a high percentage of federally owned lands and one of the highest rates of urbanism in the United States, yet is often dominated by rural legislators. The sixth edition is updated through 2020 and includes the full text of the state constitution with extensive annotations of all amendments to the original 1864 document.
A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas
by Michelle Follette Turk
ISBN: 9781948908924
Pub Date: 15 December 2020
Format: Paperback
378 Pages
A critical, long-term study on some of Southern Nevada’s most catastrophic workplace disasters. Updated through 2020, this revised and expanded edition includes discussions on:
Union activity, sexual harassment and misconduct, and race and employment
The change to Las Vegas’ “What happens here, stays here” slogan
The MGM Grand Fire and 1918 influenza pandemic
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the service industry
The story of a civil rights and political icon – Joe Neal who rose from the sharecropped fields of Mound, Louisiana to become the first African American to serve in the Nevada State Senate.
A lively firsthand account of mining life during the Gold Rush.
Winner, 2013 Award of Merit for Leadership in History by AASLH, the American Association for State and Local History, the nation’s most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and interpretation of state and local history
Winner, award of special recognition by the of the Mining History Association (Clark C. Spence Award), for its contribution to mining history as primary source material
