The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture

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Routledge, 2002 - Social Science - 207 pages
This fascinating and extensive study, enlivened by interviews with British and American gamblers, will be enthralling reading not just for those interested in the cultural and social implications of gambling - researchers in sociology, cultural studies and the history of ideas - but for anyone interested in how we create meaning in an increasingly insecure world.

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About the author (2002)

Gerda Reith, Ph.D., (Glasgow, UK) is assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture, which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize of 2000.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture
Routledge studies in social and political thought
AuthorGerda Reith
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2002
ISBN0415263093, 9780415263092
Length207 pages
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Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Social Science / Criminology
Social Science / Popular Culture
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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