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 â at homesâ in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.
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 â at homesâ in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John Eglin is currently Professor of History at the University of Montana. His published work includes Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath (Profile, 2005). He is nearing completion of his edition of James Boswell's journals in Italy and France for the research edition of the Boswell papers published by Edinburgh University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
0: Introduction: The Gambling Century 1: Probability and its Discontents 2: Court to City: Gaming in Baroque Europe 3: Sons of Hazard: The Sharper in Literature, Media, and Law 4: In the Shade of the Royal Oak: Commercial Gaming by Royal Patent 5: Making Bank: The Emergence of Metropolitan Gaming Concerns 6: The Groom Porter's Dodge: The Court and Commercial Gaming 7: The Bench Versus the Banks: Policing Gaming in Westminster 8: Commercial Gaming in the Wake of the Georgian Statutes 9: The Pilgrimage to Saint James's, or, Clubs are Trumps 10: Harmless Amusements: High Politics and High Stakes 11: At Home with Faro's Daughters 12: Breaking Even: Gaming Entrepreneurship at Century's End 13: Toward the Victorian Reconfiguration of Gaming, and Afterward
0: Introduction: The Gambling Century 1: Probability and its Discontents 2: Court to City: Gaming in Baroque Europe 3: Sons of Hazard: The Sharper in Literature, Media, and Law 4: In the Shade of the Royal Oak: Commercial Gaming by Royal Patent 5: Making Bank: The Emergence of Metropolitan Gaming Concerns 6: The Groom Porter's Dodge: The Court and Commercial Gaming 7: The Bench Versus the Banks: Policing Gaming in Westminster 8: Commercial Gaming in the Wake of the Georgian Statutes 9: The Pilgrimage to Saint James's, or, Clubs are Trumps 10: Harmless Amusements: High Politics and High Stakes 11: At Home with Faro's Daughters 12: Breaking Even: Gaming Entrepreneurship at Century's End 13: Toward the Victorian Reconfiguration of Gaming, and Afterward
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