Roll the bones : the history of gambling /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Gotham Books,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Thoth's gift : the ancient origins of gambling
- The die is cast : from classical to medieval times
- Knaves and kings : cards come into play
- Taming Tyche : the science of chance creates professional gambling
- The Ridotto revolution : mercantile gamblers create the casino
- All is on the hazard : the British come into play
- Star-spangled gamblers : the birth of American gambling
- Baiting John Bull : British gambling, 1750-1914
- Seeking the cure : spa gambling defines Europe
- Flight of the sparrow : gambling, conquest, and colonies
- Wild cards : gambling moves west
- Fools of fortune : American gambling becomes urban
- A sunny place for shady people : gambling on the French Riviera
- Wise guys and one-armed bandits : big-city gambling in the twentieth century
- Hard to resist : Nevada becomes America's gambling oasis
- The salvation of sin : is gambling a crime or a virtue?
- A place in the sun : the Strip is born
- Runaway American dream : gambling in the public interest
- All in : gambling's global spread
- A clockwork volcano : technology and triumph
- The dream : history in perspective.