Author: W. Cope Devereux
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo
Author: W. Cope Devereux
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Making Monte Carlo
Author: Mark Braude
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147670970X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich, only to be crushed under it's own weight ten years later"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147670970X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich, only to be crushed under it's own weight ten years later"--Provided by publisher.
The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader
Author: Mark R. Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501347268
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative ethical weight of “gambling” – with such games pathologized and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501347268
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative ethical weight of “gambling” – with such games pathologized and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles.
Feeling Lucky
Author: Paul Franke
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031330951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces and architecture were carefully designed to enable a rapid growth of the casino industry and produce experiences on previous unimaginable scale. Feeling Lucky, is a “making of story,” about cities which acquired a strange and captivating allure of mystery around them. It is more than a mere descriptive account, however. Combining urban history, the history of consumption, and sociological approaches it presents a compelling comparative history of Monte Carlo and the Las Vegas Strip between the 1860s and 1970s. Paul Franke takes the reader on a journey from arriving at the cities, through the carefully planned urban environments and into the famous casinos. The analysis follows the paths contemporary gamblers would have taken, right to the gambling tables and to the shifting gambling practices across a century. Franke shows that casino entrepreneurs succeeded in producing and selling gambling experiences by controlling spaces, adapt leisure practices and appeal to specific markets. Gamblers on the other hand regarded Monte Carlo and Las Vegas as places to engage in games of chance that would allow them to preserve their political, cultural, and moral identities.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031330951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces and architecture were carefully designed to enable a rapid growth of the casino industry and produce experiences on previous unimaginable scale. Feeling Lucky, is a “making of story,” about cities which acquired a strange and captivating allure of mystery around them. It is more than a mere descriptive account, however. Combining urban history, the history of consumption, and sociological approaches it presents a compelling comparative history of Monte Carlo and the Las Vegas Strip between the 1860s and 1970s. Paul Franke takes the reader on a journey from arriving at the cities, through the carefully planned urban environments and into the famous casinos. The analysis follows the paths contemporary gamblers would have taken, right to the gambling tables and to the shifting gambling practices across a century. Franke shows that casino entrepreneurs succeeded in producing and selling gambling experiences by controlling spaces, adapt leisure practices and appeal to specific markets. Gamblers on the other hand regarded Monte Carlo and Las Vegas as places to engage in games of chance that would allow them to preserve their political, cultural, and moral identities.
The Once Upon a Time World
Author: Jonathan Miles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163936496X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163936496X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
The Westminster Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library
Author: Minneapolis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Finding List of the Minneapolis Public Library
Author: Minneapolis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Geography and Travels
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description