gambling history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Jokers Wild: Legalized Gambling in the Twenty-First Century

Book by Thomas Barker, Marjie Britz; Praeger, 2000

Subjects:

Gambling--United States

Collections: Entire Library

A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas, this book reveals how we have become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry. From the colonial era to the present, Americans have ...
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A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas, this book reveals how we have become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry. From the colonial era to the present, Americans have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with gambling. It is a pastime that has gone from sin to recreational activity, and an industry that has moved from control by organized crime to management by executives with MBAs. While gaming is one of the nation's fastest-growing industries, Barker and Britz predict that this process will slow or stop in the next century as the result of market saturation and unknown social and economic effects which loom over the glitz, glamour, and action.
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Gambling and the Public Interest

Book by Peter Collins; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Gambling, Gambling--Law And Legislation

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...precontemporary (i.e., pre-1990s) history of gambling is well recounted in...Jarrolds,1962). For a history rich in sociological insight about gambling in the United States...Occasionally, in the history of gambling regulation, governments...
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Gambling Today

Book by David Lester; Charles C Thomas, 1979

Subjects:

Gambling--Economic Aspects--United States, Gambling--New Jersey--Atlantic City--Case Studies, Gambling--Social Aspects--United States, Gambling--United States--Psychological Aspects

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...million a year is spent by illegal gambling interests for bribes, payoffs...Jonathan Rubenstein, had a long history. In older cities that may be...next explanation. An individuals history at gambling, especially the memory of an early...
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State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage

Book by Richard McGowan; Quorum Books, 1994

Subjects:

Gambling--Government Policy--United States, Lotteries--Government Policy--United States

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Lotteries and state-sponsored gambling is big business. This is the first study that evaluates the business strategies of state lotteries on two fronts. First, it examines which of the lottery strategies produces the most consistent source of revenue for the state. Second, it analyzes possible ...
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Lotteries and state-sponsored gambling is big business. This is the first study that evaluates the business strategies of state lotteries on two fronts. First, it examines which of the lottery strategies produces the most consistent source of revenue for the state. Second, it analyzes possible overall gambling strategies that states will need to utilize as they seek to expand gambling revenue. This is must reading for those operating lotteries, state legislators, vendors to state lottery commissions, taxpayers, and scholars in public policy and government.
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From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling, and the Law

Book by David Dixon; Clarendon Press, 1991

Subjects:

Book-Making (Betting)--Great Britain, Book-Making (Betting)--Law And Legislation--Great Britain, Gambling--Great Britain

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The policing of illegal betting and bookmaking was a major issue in relations between police and working-class people until 1960, when betting shops were legalized in England and Wales. This ended an attempt to discriminate legally against cash betting away from the racecourses, which had reached ...
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The policing of illegal betting and bookmaking was a major issue in relations between police and working-class people until 1960, when betting shops were legalized in England and Wales. This ended an attempt to discriminate legally against cash betting away from the racecourses, which had reached its height with the Street Betting Act of 1906. This book, a contribution to the sociology and the social history of law-making, is the first major study to trace the rise and fall of the attempt at prohibition, along with detailed consideration of problems encountered by the police in enforcing anti-gambling laws, and the role of the police and the Home Office in the gradual acceptance of the need for legal reform. This study will be of special interest to criminologists, sociologists; students and scholars of socio-legal studies, and social and legal historians.
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Gambling and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South: Evidence from Nacogdoches County, Texas, 1838-1839

Journal article by Joshua C. Tate; The Journal of Southern Legal History, Vol. 15, 2007

Collections: History, Entire Library

...an additional statute banning the use of gambling tables and faro banks, whether in public or in private.26 The history of gambling legislation in Alabama and Texas followed a different path but eventually arrived at the same result. In both states...
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Betting, Sport and the British, 1918-1939

Journal article by Mike Huggins; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

British history, 1914-1945, Gambling--History, Gambling--Laws, regulations and rules, Sports betting--Ethical aspects, Sports betting--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Munting, An Economic and Social History of Gambling in Britain and the USA (Manchester...Munting, An Economic and Social History of Gambling, 230. 35. Wray Vamplew, The...Munting, An Economic and Social History of Gambling, 58. 67. Gaumont British News...
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Innovation and Ancestral Revelation: The Case of Dreams

Journal article by Katie Glaskin; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

Dreamtime (Aboriginal mythology)--Research, Dreamtime (Aboriginal mythology)--Social aspects, Gambling--History, Traditional knowledge--Innovations, Traditional knowledge--Laws, regulations and rules, Traditional knowledge--Religious aspects, Traditional knowledge--Research, Traditional knowledge--Social aspects, Western Australia--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...She concludes from her research among Aboriginal groups in the Murchison area of Western Australia that the history of the gambling games within these groups reveals more than a chance connection between the former ceremonial and the gambling...
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Conceptualizing and Treating Problem Gambling as a Family Issue

Journal article by Jennifer L. McComb, Bonnie K. Lee, Douglas H. Sprenkle; Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Vol. 35, 2009

Subjects:

Behavior, Gambling, Problems, Quality of life

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...substance abuse, pathological gambling, and a history of adverse childhood experiences...performance, perception of peer gambling, parental history of gambling, and personal...They identified parental gambling history as the variable with the...
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Gambling on a Simulated Slot Machine under Conditions of Repeated Play

Journal article by Andrew E. Brandt, Cynthia J. Pietras; The Psychological Record, Vol. 58, 2008

Subjects:

Computer simulation games--Psychological aspects, Gambling--Psychological aspects, Risk taking--Research, Risk-taking (Psychology)--Research

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...percentage-payback conditions. One possibility is that Participant 4, who scored a 4 on the SOGS, may have had a different gambling history than other participants (who all scored between 0 and 2). A SOGS score of 4 is the highest score that is indicative...

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Building on the Past, Gambling on the Future

Magazine article by Natalie Hoare; Geographical, Vol. 78, October 2006

Subjects:

Casinos--Statistics, Gambling--Forecasts and trends, Gambling--History, Macao--Description and travel, Macao--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Building on the Past, Gambling on the Future. by Natalie Hoare...Today, however, its best known as the gambling capital of the East. With construction...Kong, Macau is a well-established gambling destination and the only place in...
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Native American Casino Gambling in Wisconsin and Minnesota

Magazine article by James Janke, Jerry Gerlach; Focus, Vol. 47, Winter 2002

Subjects:

Casinos--History, Casinos--Laws, regulations and rules, Casinos--Social aspects, Gambling industry--History, Gambling industry--Laws, regulations and rules, Gambling industry--Social aspects, Gambling--History, Gambling--Social aspects, Native American casinos, Native Americans, Native Americans--Social aspects, Native North Americans--Social aspects

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...by James Janke , Jerry Gerlach History of Casino Gambling in the U.S. When the first bet was made...but odds are that it was before recorded history. In all probability gambling is one of the older forms of human activities...
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Fortune of War: As the Government Prepares to Bring Casinos to Our High Streets, John Childs Looks at a Gambling Craze of the 1690s

Magazine article by John Childs; History Today, Vol. 53, October 2003

Subjects:

Cadogan, William, Gambling--History, War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1713

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Austria and numerous German states) against France, this form of gambling evolved into a highly organised and well financed operation...is nothing more than common bookmaking enjoy the support of history The uncertainty...
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A Booming $800 Billion Industry - A Historical Perspective

Magazine article by Timothy A. Kelly; World and I, Vol. 15, July 2000

Subjects:

Gambling--History

Collections: Entire Library

...KELLY Four waves of state-sponsored gambling activity have occurred in U.S. history. 1770--1840. During the Revolutionary War...present. In 1993, for the first time in U.S. gambling history, revenues from casino gambling were greater...
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Playing with Money

Magazine article by Jackson Lears; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 19, Autumn 1995

Subjects:

Gamblers--Social aspects, Gambling--History

Collections: Entire Library

...and legitimate gambling has always been...and cultural history. What were the...American economic history, it was sometimes...difference between gambling and legitimate...for sanctioned gambling, maybe the hardest in American history. Protestant...

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Beware Perils of Gambling

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 14, 2006

Subjects:

Online gambling--Reports

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...report clearly demonstrates the dangers of the Governments desire to press ahead with the biggest changes to gambling in Britains history. Rather than proceed cautiously, Ministers have actively encouraged the unprecedented growth in gambling that...
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Odds Are against Using Gambling Revenue

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 26, 2008

Subjects:

Gambling industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...even more or will that simply create bigger budget holes to fill for years to come? We have a long history of urging caution about expanding gambling and great concern about the social costs it generates as addicts struggle and face financial ruin...
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Gambling Away Labour's History COMMENT

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 19, 2006

Subjects:

Online gambling

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Gambling Away Labours History COMMENT. AMERICANS have shown us...than shameless that Labour, with its history of standing up for the vulnerable, is now oblivious of the fact that habitual gambling can utterly destroy the lives of the...
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A Barrington Teenager Enters the Real World of Work with His Own POKER FACE but Some Question Whether His Gambling Web Site Is Too Real -BYLN- by Alissa Groeninger Agroeninger@dailyherald.Com

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 5, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...authorities have added regulations to the law and continue to modify it. He noted thereAEs a long history of Congress banning various types of "wire" gambling, going back to telephone gambling. "It would be unwise for a student to challenge this trend...
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COOKING KILL ED MY MARRIAGES; One of Keith Floyd's Four Ex-Wives Listed His Crimes as Gambling, Drinking and Whoring. How Unfair, He Says. There Was Only One 'Mistress' in My Life. and It Was My Restaurant! MY RECIPE FOR SELF-DESTRUCTION

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 15, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...It just seemed to fit. Alas, history was to repeat itself. Within...pages. As I remember, it was gambling, whoring and drinking ad infinitum...the longest career in army history. I had a nervous breakdown...rest, as is so often said, is history. EXTRACTED from Stirred But...

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Abramoff Scandal

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ABRAMOFF SCANDAL in U.S. history, political corruption scandal resulting...American tribes grown wealth from gambling. In 1995 he signed his first such...lenders in his purchase of a fleet of gambling boats, he stood trial in 2006. He...
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South Dakota

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...other Black Hills sites, and gambling are also major sources of income...South Dakota, at Vermillion. History Early Inhabitants, European...economic growth. Some casino gambling was legalized in 1989 and tourism...Beginnings and Growth (1960) and History of South Dakota (3d ed. 1975...
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Prohibition Party

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PROHIBITION PARTY in U.S. history, minor political party formed (1869) for the legislative prohibition...included woman suffrage , free public education, prohibition of gambling, and prison reform. In 1882 the party made sizable gains in state...
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Monaco

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a ruler who died without issue could inherit the throne. History Probably settled by Phoenicians in ancient times, Monaco...under French protection in 1861. In the late 1800s income from gambling by very wealthy visitors became Monacos primary source of revenue...
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Las Vegas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...enterprises have led to an increasing array of music, sports, gambling, and amusement centers up and down the main "strip," as the...has a number of museums, including ones devoted to natural history, old neon signs from the strip, the entertainer Liberace, and...

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