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- catalog contributor b11400071.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Preface: Gambling, chance and the suspension of reality -- 1. The idea of chance -- The Age of Faith: The Origins of Chance -- Chance and Determinism -- The Age of Reason: The Birth of Probability -- The Age of Chance: Chance and Modernity -- 2. The pursuit of chance -- Gambling and Divination -- The Seventeenth-Century Explosion -- The Nineteenth Century: Playing with Numbers -- Postscript: The Vortex of Vice -- 3. Playgrounds -- a map of the modern gambling sites -- Modern Gambling -- The Map: A Typology of Gambling -- The Sites: Playgrounds -- 4. The experience of play -- The Experience of Play -- The Categories of Play -- The Varieties of Gambling Experience -- 5. The magical-religious worldview -- The Rejection of Probability -- The Magical Worldview: Participation -- The Religious Worldview: Transcendence.".
- catalog extent "xx, 207 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415179971 (hb : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 22".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "363.4/2 21".
- catalog subject "Gambling History.".
- catalog subject "Gambling Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Gambling.".
- catalog subject "HV6710 .R45 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: Gambling, chance and the suspension of reality -- 1. The idea of chance -- The Age of Faith: The Origins of Chance -- Chance and Determinism -- The Age of Reason: The Birth of Probability -- The Age of Chance: Chance and Modernity -- 2. The pursuit of chance -- Gambling and Divination -- The Seventeenth-Century Explosion -- The Nineteenth Century: Playing with Numbers -- Postscript: The Vortex of Vice -- 3. Playgrounds -- a map of the modern gambling sites -- Modern Gambling -- The Map: A Typology of Gambling -- The Sites: Playgrounds -- 4. The experience of play -- The Experience of Play -- The Categories of Play -- The Varieties of Gambling Experience -- 5. The magical-religious worldview -- The Rejection of Probability -- The Magical Worldview: Participation -- The Religious Worldview: Transcendence.".
- catalog title "The age of chance : gambling in western culture / Gerda Reith.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".