Bob Harris (University of Oxford)

Broschiertes Buch

Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century

Beschreibung

English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania'. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the growth and prevalence of gambling across Britain and investigates who gambled, on what, and why.

Autor

Bob Harris is Professor of British History at the University of Oxford, and Harry Pitt Fellow in History at Worcester College. He has written numerous books and articles on the history of Britain in the long eighteenth century, including Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid Eighteenth Century (2002) and The Scottish People and the French Revolution (2008). His book, The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment, c.1740-1820 (2014), co-authored with Charles McKean, won the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year in 2014.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781009066228
• ISBN-10: 1009066226
• Artikelnr.: 70675724