Luck Leisure And The Casino In Nineteenth Century Europe

Author : Jared Poley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009393546

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Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Jared Poley Pdf

Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects that story to ideas about chance, luck, emotions, and psychology, and reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world.

Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136685576

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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops by Ann Fabian Pdf

In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ran counter to deeply ingrained American--and Protestant--work ethics, only gambling took on a stigma that made other efforts to acquire wealth socially acceptable. Fabian considers here the reformers who sought to ban gambling; psychological explanations for the deviant gambler; numbers games in the African American community; and efforts by speculators to draw distinctions between their own activities and gambling. She combines first-rate cultural analysis with rigorous research, and along the way provides a wealth of colorful details, characters and anecdotes.

Author : Michael Flavin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059999139

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Gambling in the Nineteenth-century English Novel by Michael Flavin Pdf

This book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels themselves and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists. It also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. Following an historical overview, the book comprises individual chapters on: Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but it is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes towards leisure changed. It is essential reading for all those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Gambling occurred in all strata of society and was a national pastime. The pursuit of gambling took many forms: from after-dinner cards to pugilism, and indeed Stock Exchange transactions were considered by many to be gambling at its worst. Then a shift took place in the perception of gambling, primarily as a result of economic encounters relating to the Industrial Revolution. Representations of gambling in novels of the period place the industrious middle class against both the wasteful rich and the idle poor.

Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018233986

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Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops by Ann Fabian Pdf

Author : Walter Moss
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781898855590

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Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky by Walter Moss Pdf

'Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky' is both history and story, incorporating in its analysis of Alexander II's turbulent reign the lives and ideas of the period's great writers, thinkers and revolutionaries who made this the Golden Age of Russian literature and thought. In his combination of considerable biographical material with the presentation of the main ideas of the era's chief writers and thinkers, Walter G. Moss has written a history that is of interest not only to scholars and students of the period, but also to more general readers.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B74708

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The History of Gambling in England by John Ashton Pdf

Difference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks and Romans-Among Mahometans-Early Dicing-Dicing in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries-In the 17th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote-Dicing in the 18th Century. Gaming is derived from the Saxon word Gamen, meaning joy, pleasure, sports, or gaming-and is so interpreted by Bailey, in his Dictionary of 1736; whilst Johnson gives Gamble-to play extravagantly for money, and this distinction is to be borne in mind in the perusal of this book; although the older term was in use until the invention of the later-as we see in Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674), in which he gives the following excellent definition of the word: -"Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten between Idleness and Avarice: an itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death; or, lastly, it is a paralytical distemper, which, seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but shake his elbow.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : CORNELL:31924059607469

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Travel & Leisure by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Leisure
ISBN : UCBK:C043083423

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Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032347

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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece by Sara Forsdyke Pdf

Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473382800

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Democracy and Education by John Dewey Pdf

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive treatise on democracy and education, being an introduction to the 'philosophy of education'. Written in clear, concise language and full of interesting expositions and thought-provoking assertions, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in the role of education in society, and it would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Education as a Necessity of Life'; 'Education as a Social Function'; 'Education as Direction'; 'Education as Growth'; 'Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline'; 'Education as Conservative and Progressive'; 'The Democratic Conception in Education'; 'Aims in Education', etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Author : Simon Singh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408835319

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The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh Pdf

You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realising that they contain enough maths to form an entire university course. In The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh explains how the brilliant writers, some of the mathematicians, have smuggled in mathematical jokes throughout the cartoon's twenty-five year history, exploring everything from to Mersenne primes, from Euler's equation to the unsolved riddle of P vs. NP, from perfect numbers to narcissistic numbers, and much more. With wit, clarity and a true fan's zeal, Singh analyses such memorable episodes as 'Bart the Genius' and 'Homer3' to offer an entirely new insight into the most successful show in television history.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512449

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Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century by Bob Harris Pdf

This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.

Author : Melis Hafez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427845

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Inventing Laziness by Melis Hafez Pdf

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a way to understanding emerging civic culture in the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009081016

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China's Grandmothers by Diana Lary Pdf

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society.

Author : Carolyn Marvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780198021384

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When Old Technologies Were New by Carolyn Marvin Pdf

In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and popular media. Marvin pays particular attention to the telephone, describing how it disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. On the lighter side, she describes how people spoke louder when calling long distance, and how they worried about catching contagious diseases over the phone. A particularly powerful chapter deals with telephonic precursors of radio broadcasting--the "Telephone Herald" in New York and the "Telefon Hirmondo" of Hungary--and the conflict between the technological development of broadcasting and the attempt to impose a homogenous, ethnocentric variant of Anglo-Saxon culture on the public. While focusing on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, Marvin also illuminates the broader social impact, presenting a wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining account of the early years of electronic media.