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Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512449
This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
Author : John Eglin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192888235
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 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.
Author : John Eglin,Prof John (Professor of History Eglin, Professor of History University of Montana)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192888198
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 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.
Author : Amy Prendergast
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137512710
The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.
Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : England
ISBN : LCCN:68021520
Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Gambling
ISBN : HARVARD:32044036962199
Author : Geoffrey Wilson Clark
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0719056756
By examining the rise of life insurance institutions in 18th-century England, this book offers fresh insight into the history of a commercial society learning to apply speculative techniques to the management of risk.
Author : Sharon Harrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317171430
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
Author : Donna T. Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300185522
DIV Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. Each of the four, it was commonly believed, owed its origin to pride. Many felt the law did not go far enough to punish those perpetrators who were members of the elite. In this exciting new book, Andrew explores each vice’s treatment by the press at the time and shows how a century of public attacks on aristocratic vices promoted a sense of “class superiority” among the soon-to-emerge British middle class. “Donna Andrew continues to illuminate the mental landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. . . . No historian of the period has made greater or more effective use of the newspaper press as a source for cultural history than she. This book is evidently the product of a great deal of work and is likely to stimulate further work.”—Joanna Innes, University of Oxford /div
Author : Tawny Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108496940
Examines debt insecurity in eighteenth-century Britain, a period of famously rapid economic growth when many people nevertheless experienced financial failure.
Author : Donna T. Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300184334
div Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England—duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling—and the subsequent emergence of the middle class./DIV
Author : Mike Huggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Horse racing
ISBN : 1783273186
Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. This book explores the cultural world of racing and its relationship with British society in the long eighteenth century. It examines how and why race meetings changed from a marginal and informal interest for some of the elite to become the most significant leisure event of the summer season. Going beyond sports history, the book firmly places racing in its cultural, social, political and economic context. Racing's development was linked to the growth of commercialized leisure in the eighteenth century, a product of rising wealth amongst the middling group; changes in transport; the expansion of the newspaper press; and the new democratic and individualistic spirit of the age, especially the more flexible social codes of the late Georgian and Regency eras. In this book, horse racing emerges as the first 'proto-modern' sport, with links with the widespread popularity of gaming and betting which forced ever-increasing codification, regulation and event organization. Racing also gave expression to highly nuanced concepts of local, regional, national, class, gender (primarily male) and political identities. Drawing on the fields of social, cultural and sports history and utilizing many hitherto ignored or under-exploited sources, the book revises current histories of eighteenth-century leisure and sport, showing how horse racing links to debates about commercialization, consumer behaviour, the 'urban renaissance' and human-horse relationships. It also sheds new light not only on racehorse ownership, but also on the hitherto hidden world of racing's key professionals: jockeys, trainers, bloodstock breeders, stud grooms and stable hands. MIKE HUGGINS is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria.
Author : Janet E. Mullin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270477
Peering through the windows of private homes and Assembly Rooms alike, this book shines a new light on the middle classes during the long eighteenth century.
Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:933102219
Author : Jason Peacey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030237347
This volume offers a series of essays which explore the impact of print upon parliament and parliamentary affairs during the early modern period, with particular reference to the relations between parliament and the 'public'. The articles build upon historiographical interest in the 'print revolution' and the 'public sphere', as well as the working of parliament in the 'world beyond Westminster'. The specific topics covered include the exploitation of print by those who sought to petition parliament, and by those who sought to draw attention to issues of public concern such as financial corruption; the coverage of parliamentary proceedings in newspapers both national and local, and their benefit to lobbyists; developments in print media over the course of the early modern period and throughout Britain; and the motivation for, and development of, reporting of parliamentary speeches in print.