Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas

Since the spatial and relational turns in the social sciences, it has become self-evident that one needs to combat methodological universalism and nationalism and explain the constitution of space relationally. Following the sociology of knowledge approach, Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as `travelling conceptual knowledge', distinguishes them, and reflects on the `epistemic fallacy' which arises from re-contextualising them uncritically in studying contemporary urban space in China.

This book recounts Italian assimilation from an Italian-American point of view; it provides a window into the Las Vegas Italian community that can be obtained from no other source.