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Gambling, the state and society in Thailand, c. 1800-1945 /
"During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ;
82. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gambling and socio-economic change in nineteenth-century Siam
- Games, dens and players : gambling in nineteenth-century Thai society
- Gambling revenue and the creation of the modern Thai nation-state
- The Thai elite, anti-gambling and lawmaking
- The police and enforcement
- The judiciary, punishment and the prison
- The press and the Bangkok middle class
- Buddhism, the sangha and the silent majority
- The criminalization of vice : gambling policy in comparative perspective.