ISBN:
9780415886567
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XIII, 124 S.
,
Ill.
Serie:
Studies in American popular history and culture
Dissertationsvermerk:
Teilw. zugl.: Columbia, SC, Univ. of South Carolina, Diss., 2008
DDC:
795.3/8097309033
Schlagwort(e):
Lotteries History
;
United States Social life and customs To 1775
;
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
"City and country run mad after riches": English lotteries from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Crossing the pond: public and private lotteries in colonial America -- "A scheme of a lottery": the mechanics of colonial lotteries and interpreting a lottery advertisement -- Lotteries, the consumer revolution, and changing notions of fortuna -- "Inexpedient and improper": the end of colonial lotteries and the beginning of lotteries in the United States.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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