ISBN:
9780192888198
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 272 Seiten
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Illustrationen (schwarzweiß)
DDC:
306.4820942
Keywords:
18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
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c 1700 to c 1800
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior
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British & Irish history
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European history
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Europäische Geschichte
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
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HISTORY / Social History
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Social & cultural history
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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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