Gambling In Britain In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Gambling In Britain In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Bob Harris
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Gambling In Britain In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Bob Harris and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with History categories.
This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
The Gambling Century
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Author : John Eglin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-15
The Gambling Century written by John Eglin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with categories.
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.
Arts Of Play
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Author : Jessica Anne Richard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Arts Of Play written by Jessica Anne Richard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Dissertations, Academic categories.
The History Of Gambling In England
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Author : John Ashton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The History Of Gambling In England written by John Ashton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Gambling categories.
Betting On Lives
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Author : Geoffrey Wilson Clark
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1999
Betting On Lives written by Geoffrey Wilson Clark and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Civilization categories.
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.
The History Of Gambling In England
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Author : John Ashton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The History Of Gambling In England written by John Ashton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with England categories.
Literary Salons Across Britain And Ireland In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Amy Prendergast
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Literary Salons Across Britain And Ireland In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Amy Prendergast and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
British Sporting Literature And Culture In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Sharon Harrow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
British Sporting Literature And Culture In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Sharon Harrow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Aristocratic Vice
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Author : Donna T. Andrew
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-18
Aristocratic Vice written by Donna T. Andrew and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-18 with History categories.
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
Horse Racing And British Society In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Mike Huggins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Horse Racing And British Society In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Mike Huggins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Horse racing categories.
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.