The Main Event: Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip - Davies, Richard O.
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Explores how boxing's growth in Nevada relates to the state's role as a social and cultural outlier. Davies utilises primary and secondary sources to analyse how boxing in the Silver State intersects with its tourist economy and libertarian values, paying special attention to issues of race, class, and gender. Written in an engaging style that shifts easily between narrative and analysis, The Main Event will be essential reading for sports fans and historians everywhere.

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Explores how boxing's growth in Nevada relates to the state's role as a social and cultural outlier. Davies utilises primary and secondary sources to analyse how boxing in the Silver State intersects with its tourist economy and libertarian values, paying special attention to issues of race, class, and gender. Written in an engaging style that shifts easily between narrative and analysis, The Main Event will be essential reading for sports fans and historians everywhere.
Autorenporträt
Richard O. Davies is distinguished professor of history, emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Reno. His most recent book is Rivals! The Ten Greatest American Sports Rivalries of the 20th Century; other works include Sports in American Life: A History and The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada. In 2013 he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.