The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western CultureRoutledge, 5 aug 2005 - 232 pagina's Historical context: locates gambling in attitudes from Aristotle to present day Las Vegas |
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The idea of chance | 13 |
CHANCE AND DETERMINISM | 19 |
Pascal | 25 |
Chance in Britain | 31 |
Risk | 39 |
The pursuit of chance | 44 |
THE SEVENTEENTHCENTURY EXPLOSION | 58 |
Gambling | 65 |
Bingo | 104 |
The bookmaker | 111 |
www casino com | 123 |
The experience of play | 127 |
THE CATEGORIES OF PLAY | 138 |
Money | 145 |
Gambling chance and status | 151 |
Epilogue | 182 |
Stratification and commercialisation | 71 |
Dice | 77 |
Playgrounds a map of the modern gambling sites | 88 |
The lottery | 98 |
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action activity Age of Chance ancient appeared aristocratic Ashton Baudrillard became become belief betting bingo bookmakers bourgeoisie British Caillois cards casino Chapter classical clubs commercial commercialisation culture described Despite dice divination divinatory Dostoevsky dreams economic efficacy eighteenth emerged environment everyday excitement existence experience of play fate favour forms of gambling gamblers gambling games games of chance Gigerenzer Goffman Huizinga human individual Internet involved Kavanagh knowledge Las Vegas law of large lose lottery luck lucky machines magical Mahabharata meaning medieval modern National Lottery nature nineteenth century notion odds ontological organisation orientation outcome participation perception Plato players poker potlach probabilistic probability theory punters race race-track random rate of play rational recognised regarded relation religious repetition risk ritual roulette scientific sense seventeenth century simply situation skill slot-machine social society space specific stake status tickets tradition uncertainty Vegas vertigo wager wealth winning working-class worldview