The age of chance : gambling in western culture / Gerda Reith.
The age of chance : gambling in western culture / Gerda Reith.
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London : Routledge, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N363.42/4
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English
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xx, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 Seventeent...
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Publisher
London : Routledge, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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The age of chance : gambling in western culture / Gerda Reith.
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The age of chance : gambling and western culture.
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Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 22.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N363.42/4
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74VvjALgkZOg
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ISBN
0415179971
9780415179973 (hbk.)
0415179971 (hbk.)
9780415263092 (pbk. )
0415263093 (pbk. )
9780415179973
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363.42
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991015235169702626
