The Gambling Century

The Gambling Century uses extensive archival material as well as printed sources, to follow 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.

Welcome and elegantly written new book.

Welcome and elegantly written.

A truly interdisciplinary book... provides a wealth of detail and critical analysis of the commercial gaming sector throughout the long eighteenth century.

Welcome and elegantly written new book.

John Eglin's The Gambling Century offers a detailed and meticulously researched examination of commercialized gambling in the long eighteenth century. ..this book offers a valuable contribution to the study of gambling in eighteenth century Britain, particularly in its legal and institutional dimensions.

John Eglin is currently Professor of History at the University of Montana. His published work includes Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath (Profile, 2005). He is nearing completion of his edition of James Boswell's journals in Italy and France for the research edition of the Boswell papers published by Edinburgh University Press.