[PDF] The Casino And Society In Britain eBook

Author : Seamus Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0429845006

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This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British casino industry, which has, to date, escaped the attention of a dedicated historical and criminological investigation. This monograph fills this gap in inquiry while drawing on primary source material that has not been used previously, including, but not confined to, records in the National Archives relating to the Gaming Board of Great Britain and the Metropolitan Police. In addition to archive material, oral histories, newspapers, published journals and books have been utilised and referenced where appropriate. Envisaged to close a gap in historical research, this book will be of interest to historians, criminologists, regulators, students and individuals interested in gambling, society and cultural history.

Author : L. Black
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2002-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0230288243

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Exploring relationships between politics, the people and social change, this book assesses the fortunes mainly of Labour, but also of the Communist Party and the New Left in postwar Britain. Using concepts like political culture, it looks at the left's articulation of 'affluence': consumerism, youth culture, America, TV, advertising and its disappointment at the people under the impact of such changes. It also examines party organization, socialist thinking and the use of new communication techniques like TV, advertising and opinion polling.

Author : Statistical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :

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Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal, demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.

Author : John Grieve Smith
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The instability of the global financial system threatens industry and jobs throughout the world (the 1990s/2000 Asian crisis). However, as threats recede, Western leaders become less concerned about serious reform. This pamphlet challenges that limited vision, arguing for fundamental reform.

Author : Roger Munting
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719044496

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A comparitive history of gambling in Britain and the USA

Author : David B Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134627939

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The fact that we inhabit a consumer society has incredibly far-reaching implications. Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city. It examines the nature of consumption and its increasing centrality to post-modern society by; *considering the development of consumerism as a central facet of social life *demonstrating that social inequalities are increasingly structured around consumption *uncovering the hidden consequences of consumerism *pondering the meaning of lifestyle *revealing how the nature of reality is changing in an age of globalization. Employing a sustained and engaging theoretical analysis, the book ranges across a variety of sometimes unexpected topics. It represents an impassioned plea for everyone interested in the social life of cities to take the notion of the consumer society - and the arguments of its major theorists - seriously.