Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. A British 'Gambling Mania'? -- II. New Perspectives: Reconnecting Gambling and Its Contexts -- III. Organization, Coverage, and Sources -- 1 Gambling for High Stakes or 'Deep Play' -- 1.1 Gambling amongst the Elites -- 1.2 Horse Racing and Gambling -- 1.3 'Deep Play' in the Later Eighteenth Century: Gambling Scotsmen -- 1.4 Lord William Murray: The Feckless Younger Son -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 In Search of Popular Gambling -- 2.1 Cricket and Betting -- 2.2 Perspectives and Agenda -- 2.3 Popular Gambling in the British Metropolis -- 2.4 Taverns, Coffee Houses, and Gaming Houses -- 2.5 Illegal Lottery Insurance -- 2.6 Metropolitan Popular Gambling: Roles and Meanings -- 2.7 Beyond London -- 2.8 Pedestrianism and Cultures of Betting in the Later Georgian Period -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 3 The Rise of the Lottery -- 3.1 Creating the Lottery Marketplace -- 3.2 Purchasing a Lottery Ticket -- 3.3 Lottery Offices -- 3.4 Publicizing the Lottery -- 3.5 Lottery Insurance and the Role of Parliament and the Law -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Lottery Adventures and Adventurers -- 4.1 Who Played the Lottery: The Picture before 1769 -- 4.2 Playing the Lottery: The Picture after 1769 -- 4.3 Motivations -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Gamblers and the Law -- 5.1 The Law and Gaming -- 5.2 Non-enforcement of the Law against Gaming -- 5.3 Campaigns to Suppress London's Gaming Houses -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Gambling in a Commercial Society -- The Changing Character of Gambling -- A Polite and Commercial People? -- Looking Forward -- Select Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Archives of the Honourable Artillery Company -- Court Minutes -- Bank of England Archives -- Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service.

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