The gambling century : commercial gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency / John Eglin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eglin, John, 1962- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gambling--Great Britain--History.

Gambling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Cover

The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Gambling Century?

Playing the Field

Laying Odds

Hedging Bets

Mains and Chances

On the Money

Debts of Honour

1: Probability and its Discontents

The Brave New World of Numbers

Banking on Infinity

Thinking Magically, Mathematically

2: Court to City: Gaming in Baroque Europe

The Serene Ridotto

Tolerated, but not Permitted

The Great Game

3: Sons of Hazard: The Sharper in Literature, Media, and Law

Hazardous Scenarios

Having At All

Occam's Wager

Statutory Fiction

4: In the Shade of the Royal Oak: Commercial Gaming by Royal Patent

The Polyhedral Face of Patronage

By the Board

Oaks and Oranges

5: Making Bank: The Emergence of Metropolitan Gaming Concerns

Lawful Recreation

On the House

Games People Play

The Stamp of Approval

Drawing a Blank

6: The Groom Porter's Dodge: The Court and Commercial Gaming

Grace and Favour

Slings and Arrows

On the Verge

7: The Bench Versus the Banks: Policing Gaming in Westminster

Outrageous Fortune

In Playhouse Passage

An Information Economy

Game and Match

8: Commercial Gaming in the Wake of the Georgian Statutes

Parliament Doubles Down

When a Lady has a Piazza

Re-Inventing the Wheel

Ridotto Redux

Particularity and Deficiency

9: The Pilgrimage to Saint James's, or, Clubs are Trumps

Chocolate Boxes

The Windows of Brooks's

One Device to Another

10: Harmless Amusements: High Politics and High Stakes

Vowel Movements

Reynard and the Hounds

Game On

11: At Home with Faro's Daughters

A Place at the Table

Rouleaux and Routs

Despicable Exhibitions.

12: Breaking Even: Gaming Entrepreneurship at Century's End

Honourable Debtors

Turning the Tables

Polite and Commercial People

13: Toward the Victorian Reconfiguration of Gaming, and Afterward

Drawing Blanks, and Filling Them In

The Shoes of the Fishmonger

Select Companies and Select Committees

The Tragedy of the Common Gaming House

Rien Ne Va Plus

Bibliography

Manuscript Sources

Printed Primary Source Collections

Electronic Resources

Newspapers and Periodicals

Printed Primary Sources

Secondary Works

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 14, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-288823-4

0-19-198217-2

0-19-288822-6

OCLC:

1409703186