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The Gambling Century
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 a...
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A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars
Hutchinson, John. A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars, with Brief Biographical Notices. [London]: The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, 1902. xiv, 284 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002041361. ISBN 1-58477-323-5. Cloth. $80. * Brief biographies of nearly one thousand distinguished Templars admitted between 1501 to 1901, such as Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Henry Fielding, Sir William Jones, Lord Kenyon and Sir John Skene. A handy volume for the scholar of English law.
