Format:
1 online resource (374 pages)
ISBN:
9780874177480
Series Statement:
Shepperson Series in Nevada History
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Celebrating Tradition and Resisting Assimilation -- 1 - Peddlers and Merchants, 1850-1863 -- 2 - From Territory to Statehood, 1861-1865 -- 3 - Riveted Jeans, Shopkeepers, and Ranchers in Railroad Towns, 1868-1880 -- 4 - A Gunfighter, a Physician, an Alleged Arsonist, and a Reform Congregation, 1865-1885 -- 5 - Settling, Praying, Working, and Partying in the Halcyon Years, 1865-1880 -- 6 - Women, Their Children, and Their Occupations, 1860-1900 -- 7 - Coping with Depression, 1880-1910 -- 8 - Dashed Hopes, New Discoveries, and the Goldfield Bubble, 1890-1920 -- 9 - Building a Tourist Economy and a Permanent Synagogue, 1897-1946 -- 10 - The Early Years of Las Vegas, 1905-1955 -- 11 - Building a Temple, Keeping a Rabbi, and Schisms North and South, 1950-1980 -- 12 - Antisemitism in the Twentieth Century -- 13 - Civil Rights and Uncommon Causes -- 14 - The Varieties of Religious Observance, 1974-2005 -- 15 - Yiddishkeit, or Ways of Being Jewish, 1931-2005 -- 16 - Walking the Walk, 1970-2005 -- Conclusion: The Past Need not be Prologue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780874177374
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780874177374
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4312812
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