ISBN:
9780415536349
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9781135908935 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
263 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135908935
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
DDC:
306.4820959309034
Abstract:
〈P〉During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same period, a strong anti-gambling discourse emerged within the Thai elite, which sought to regulate gambling through a series of increasingly restrictive and punitive laws. By the mid-twentieth century, most forms of gambling had been made illegal, a situation that persists until today. This historic...
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