Tag: Casino

Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe


Free Download Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History of Gambling
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009393545 | 227 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino, this book reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world. The development of resorts and the architectural qualities of casinos demonstrate how new leisure practices, combined with revolutions in transportation and communication, fashioned resort gambling in the Rhineland and Riviera. Jared Poley explores the importance of casino gambling in people’s lives, probing how gambling and fate intersected. The casino impacted understandings of the body, excited emotions, and drove the ‘psychology’ of the gambler, as well as affecting ideas about probability, chance, and luck. Ultimately, this book addresses the fundamental question of what gambling was for, and how it opened up opportunities to understand theories about aggression, play, and human development.

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Casino Love and Honor in Las Vegas


Free Download Larry Shandling, "Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas"
English | 1995 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 0684808323, 1451635672 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy-basis for the film Goodfellas-Nicholas Pileggi reveals how the pair worked together to oversee Las Vegas casino operations for the mob. He unearths how Teamster pension funds were used to take control of the Stardust and Tropicana and how Spilotro simultaneously ran a crew of jewel thieves nicknamed the "Hole in the Wall Gang."

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