Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

"Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenthcentury Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects that story to ideas about chance, luck, emotions, and psychology, and reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world"--

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is the author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed (2016) as well as co-editor of volumes on religious conversion, money, and migration in Germany.