The gambling century : commercial gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency
Eglin, John, 1962-2023
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'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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Author:
Eglin, John, 1962-, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Collation:
272 pages ; 24 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780192888198 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2648393
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