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Description: Prologue to 'The Faro Table' produced as 'The Guardians'.
The Faro Table, Prologue to
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Description: Prologue to 'The Faro Table' produced as 'The Guardians'.
The Faro Table; or, The Guardians. A comedy. [With a prologue by T. L. Peacock.]
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Author: John TOBIN (Dramatic Writer.)Publisher:
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Pages : 54
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The faro table; or, The guardians. A comedy
Author: John TobinThe Gaming Table
Author: Andrew SteinmetzPublisher: e-artnow
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The Gaming Table, edition in two volumes, represents history of gambling from ancient times in India, Egypt and Greece to modern days England, France and United States. The book covers all sorts of gaming and gambling, including card games, board games, lotteries, tricks, frauds and many more schemes that developed throughout the ages.
The Faro Convention's role in a changing society
Author: Francesc PlaPublisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9287191875
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Council of Europe action in the field of cultural heritage targets promoting diversity and dialogue through access to heritage to foster a sense of identity, collective memory and mutual understanding within and between communities. The year 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, also known as the Faro Convention. The present publication shows that what emerged back in 2005 as a truly innovative approach is still relevant today and can also have an impact on issues beyond its traditional realm. This is illustrated through a set of articles that demonstrate the pertinence of the Faro Convention’s approach to cultural heritage in addressing different aspects, ranging from democratic participation to tourism rethinking. The wide range of topics addressed and the numerous possibilities described by the various contributors suggest that the next ten years of the Faro Convention will be as challenging and rewarding as the decade that has elapsed since its entry into force.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims (Vol.I&II)
Author: Andrew SteinmetzPublisher: e-artnow
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, edition in two volumes, represents history of gambling from ancient times in India, Egypt and Greece to modern days England, France and United States. The book covers all sorts of gaming and gambling, including card games, board games, lotteries, tricks, frauds and many more schemes that developed throughout the ages.
The Faro Table
Author: Charles SedleyThe Life of Thomas Love Peacock
Author: Carl Van DorenThe Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
Author: Thomas Love PeacockThe Gambling Century
Author: John EglinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192888196
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Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - encouraged and bankrolled by those in power - fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it. Using extensive archival material as well as printed sources, it follows its subjects from the Court to the coffeehouse, to private clubs and "at homes" in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.