Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- 1. Introduction: The Power of Invisible Hands -- 2. A Home for Markets Two Neighborhoods in Plan and Practice, 1905–1996 -- 3. Mappings of Power Informal Economy and Hybrid States -- 4. Mastery, Power, and Model...

This essay foregrounds a dimension of Las Vegas that other authors only touch on in passing: its connections to empire. The authors propose a post-imperial analysis of the city based on a reconstruction of its history and a reading of the traces of this history in the city's architecture and its...