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John Eglin The Gambling Century (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Gambling Century : Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency
- Publication Name
- The Gambling Century
- Title
- The Gambling Century
- Subtitle
- Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0192888196
- EAN
- 9780192888198
- ISBN
- 9780192888198
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Social History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / General
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 16/11/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 21.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources that created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - encouraged and bankrolled by those in power - fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. 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.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192888196
ISBN-13
9780192888198
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4061461021
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Book Title
Gambling Century : Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Social History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Hv6722
Table of Content
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, 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
Dewey Decimal
306.4820942
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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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