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A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from Bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas. The book reveals how America has become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barker, Thomas
Other Authors: Britz, Marjie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
Subjects:
Gambling > United States.
Jeux de hasard > États-Unis.
GAMES > Gambling > General.
Gambling
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Where are we now? : gambling today
  • Extent and nature of legal gambling
  • Conclusion
  • 3. New wine in old bottles
  • The colonists
  • Nineteenth-century gambling
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Sin, vice, and gangsters
  • New York casinos
  • Gambling as a business : organized crime
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Gambling as a legitimate industry
  • The phantom arrives
  • William F. Harrah of Reno
  • Las Vegas : adult Disney World
  • Atlantic City : gambling on the Boardwalk
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The dam bursts : Indian gambling and gambling vessels
  • The red man enters
  • Roll 'em on the river : return of the riverboats?
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Gambling-lotteries : state-run games of chance
  • Nature and extent
  • Permission : you may
  • The games people play : the modern lottery
  • Please do : advertising
  • 8. The web of gambling
  • What is the Internet?
  • Regulating the web
  • Action by the states
  • Action by the Federal government
  • The business of online wagering
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Intellectualizing the action : why people gamble
  • Compulsive gambling
  • Pathological gambling
  • Emerging definitions
  • Square pegs in round holes : gambling theories
  • Treatment models
  • Benefiting from people's addictions
  • Conclusions
  • 10. Effects on special populations
  • Youth gambling
  • College gambling
  • Senior citizens gambling
  • Women
  • 11. Effects on communities
  • He says : the American Gaming Association
  • She says : anti-gambling activist
  • Conclusion
  • 12. Enter the Federal Commission
  • Introduction
  • 1996 National Gambling Impact Study Commission
  • Commission recommendations
  • Conclusion
  • 13. Enough is enough
  • Introduction
  • Market saturation
  • Competition
  • Gambling-lotteries
  • Convenience/neighborhood gambling
  • Further signs of trouble
  • Conclusion.

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