Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

A Cultural History of Gambling

Jared Poley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-39354-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino, this book reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world. The development of resorts and the architectural qualities of casinos demonstrate how new leisure practices, combined with revolutions in transportation and communication, fashioned resort gambling in the Rhineland and Riviera. Jared Poley explores the importance of casino gambling in people's lives, probing how gambling and fate intersected. The casino impacted understandings of the body, excited emotions, and drove the 'psychology' of the gambler, as well as affecting ideas about probability, chance, and luck. Ultimately, this book addresses the fundamental question of what gambling was for, and how it opened up opportunities to understand theories about aggression, play, and human development.

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is the author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed (2016) as well as co-editor of volumes on religious conversion, money, and migration in Germany.

Introduction; 1. Gambling in the nineteenth century; 2. Visiting the resort; 3. Experiencing the casino; 4. Probability and the casino; 5. Chance and luck; 6. Gambling and the body; 7. Gambling and the history of emotions; 8. The psychology of gambling; 9. What gambling was; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	New Studies in European History
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-009-39354-5 / 1009393545
ISBN-13	978-1-009-39354-6 / 9781009393546
Zustand	Neuware