Table of Contents
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 Garvía
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 Hübl
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