Neal Millikan

Lotteries in Colonial America

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Produktbeschreibung

Lotteries in Colonial America examines the role lotteries played in the economic life of the colonies, as an alternative form of raising revenue for public and private projects that was utilized from the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415886567
• ISBN-10: 0415886562
• Artikelnr.: 30518040

Autorenporträt

Neal Millikan received her doctorate in History from the University of South Carolina. She has been the assistant project director of the Digital Edition of the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry, and has been a NHPRC Fellow with the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents:Introduction 1. "City and Country Run Mad After Riches:" English
Lotteries from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 2. Crossing the Pond:
Public and Private Lotteries in Colonial America 3. "A Scheme of a
Lottery:" The Mechanics of Colonial Lotteries and Interpreting a Lottery
Advertisement 4. Lotteries, the Consumer Revolution, and Changing Notions
of Fortuna 5. "Inexpedient and Improper:" The End of Colonial Lotteries and
the Beginning of Lotteries in the United States Conclusion