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    The gambling century : commercial gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780192888198
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen (schwarzweiß)
    DDC: 306.4820942
    Keywords: 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.) ; c 1700 to c 1800 ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior ; British & Irish history ; European history ; Europäische Geschichte ; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain ; HISTORY / Social History ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
    Abstract: The Gambling Century uses extensive archival material as well as printed sources, to follow its subjects from the Court to the coffeehouse, to private clubs and "at homes" in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino
    Description / Table of Contents: 0: Introduction: The Gambling Century1: Probability and its Discontents2: Court to City: Gaming in Baroque Europe3: Sons of Hazard: The Sharper in Literature, Media, and Law4: In the Shade of the Royal Oak: Commercial Gaming by Royal Patent5: Making Bank: The Emergence of Metropolitan Gaming Concerns6: The Groom Porter's Dodge: The Court and Commercial Gaming7: The Bench Versus the Banks: Policing Gaming in Westminster8: Commercial Gaming in the Wake of the Georgian Statutes9: The Pilgrimage to Saint James's, or, Clubs are Trumps10: Harmless Amusements: High Politics and High Stakes11: At Home with Faro's Daughters12: Breaking Even: Gaming Entrepreneurship at Century's End13: Toward the Victorian Reconfiguration of Gaming, and Afterward
    Note: Bibliografie S. 249-262, Index S. 263-272
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    The gambling century : commercial gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191982170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations.
    Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online
    DDC: 306.4820942
    Keywords: Gambling History ; Society ; Society & culture: general
    Abstract: 'The Gambling Century' focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it. Using extensive archival material as well as printed sources, it follows its subjects from the Court to the coffeehouse, to private clubs and 'at homes' in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192888198.001.0001
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192888198.001.0001
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    The Gambling Century : Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (2024)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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    ISBN: 9780192888228
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (283 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4820942
    Keywords: Gambling
    Abstract: The Gambling Century uses extensive archival material as well as printed sources, to follow its subjects from the Court to the coffeehouse, to private clubs and "at homes" in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.
    Abstract: Cover -- The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Gambling Century? -- Playing the Field -- Laying Odds -- Hedging Bets -- Mains and Chances -- On the Money -- Debts of Honour -- 1: Probability and its Discontents -- The Brave New World of Numbers -- Banking on Infinity -- Thinking Magically, Mathematically -- 2: Court to City: Gaming in Baroque Europe -- The Serene Ridotto -- Tolerated, but not Permitted -- The Great Game -- 3: Sons of Hazard: The Sharper in Literature, Media, and Law -- Hazardous Scenarios -- Having At All -- Occam's Wager -- Statutory Fiction -- 4: In the Shade of the Royal Oak: Commercial Gaming by Royal Patent -- The Polyhedral Face of Patronage -- By the Board -- Oaks and Oranges -- 5: Making Bank: The Emergence of Metropolitan Gaming Concerns -- Lawful Recreation -- On the House -- Games People Play -- The Stamp of Approval -- Drawing a Blank -- 6: The Groom Porter's Dodge: The Court and Commercial Gaming -- Grace and Favour -- Slings and Arrows -- On the Verge -- 7: The Bench Versus the Banks: Policing Gaming in Westminster -- Outrageous Fortune -- In Playhouse Passage -- An Information Economy -- Game and Match -- 8: Commercial Gaming in the Wake of the Georgian Statutes -- Parliament Doubles Down -- When a Lady has a Piazza -- Re-Inventing the Wheel -- Ridotto Redux -- Particularity and Deficiency -- 9: The Pilgrimage to Saint James's, or, Clubs are Trumps -- Chocolate Boxes -- The Windows of Brooks's -- One Device to Another -- 10: Harmless Amusements: High Politics and High Stakes -- Vowel Movements -- Reynard and the Hounds -- Game On -- 11: At Home with Faro's Daughters -- A Place at the Table -- Rouleaux and Routs -- Despicable Exhibitions.
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