Legacies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century gaming in modern attitudes towards gambling

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 349-364

  Tosney, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eighteenth century; Gaming legislation; History of gambling; Moral attitudes; Social consequences; Women's gambling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955960386     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: 14693615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2010.488104     Document Type: Article

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