Author: Andrew Steinmetz
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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2).
Author: Andrew Steinmetz
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Languages : en
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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims (Vol.I&II)
Author: Andrew Steinmetz
Publisher: e-artnow
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, edition in two volumes, represents history of gambling from ancient times in India, Egypt and Greece to modern days England, France and United States. The book covers all sorts of gaming and gambling, including card games, board games, lotteries, tricks, frauds and many more schemes that developed throughout the ages.
Publisher: e-artnow
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, edition in two volumes, represents history of gambling from ancient times in India, Egypt and Greece to modern days England, France and United States. The book covers all sorts of gaming and gambling, including card games, board games, lotteries, tricks, frauds and many more schemes that developed throughout the ages.
The Gaming Table
Author: Steinmetz Andrew
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318765003
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318765003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Pages : 766
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Brighton
Author: Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Category : Brighton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Brighton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Vice and the Victorians
Author: Mike Huggins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472525566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472525566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society.
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Author: Jared Poley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009393545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009393545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
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.
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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