Random Riches : Gambling Past & Present (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Dealing in Chances?An Introduction Manfred Zollinger PART 1: Paths Toward Modern Gambling 1 The Ancient Roots of Modern Gambling Gherado Ortalli 2 Bingo! A Material History of Modern Gaming Thierry Depaulis 3 The Lure of Lady Luck: Lotteries and Economic Culture in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries Jeroen Puttevils 4 Taking Chances: Girolamo Cardano on Gambling, and the Art of Memory, and Magic Sergius Kodera 5 Debating the Lottery in Britain c. 1750?1830 James Raven 6 Heterotopias of Chance: Gambling and Subjectivity around 1800 Peter Schnyder PART 2: Gambling in Contemporary Consumer Societies 7 Cultural and Social Meanings of Gambling in Finland and Sweden: A Historical Perspective Riitta Matilainen 8 The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Syndicate Play Roberto Garvia 9 All You Need is a Dollar and a Dream: Explaining the Inverse Relationship between Socio-economic Position and Lottery Play Jens Beckert and Mark Lutter 10 A Brief Survey of German Casinos before and after World War II Manfred Zollinger 11 Casino Gambling as Part of the German Gambling Market Lothar Hubl PART 3 Perceptions and Realities of Gambling, Chance, and Risk 12 Games and Passions: Huizinga’s Homo ludens as Spieltrieb Willem Otterspeer 13 "Pathological" Gambling in an Age of Chance Gerda Reith 14 Gambling and Speculation: Perceptions and Reality Reuven Brenner References Index