Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe : A Cultural History of Gambling

Cambridge University Press

Luck Leisure and the Casino in NineteenthCentury Europe\nby Jared Poley\nHardback\nUnknown\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jared Poley\nTitle: Luck Leisure and the Casino in NineteenthCentury Europe\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: Unknown\nTopic: Gambling: theories and methods\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009393546\nISBN-10: 1009393545\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nCasino 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 thei.