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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Age of Chance

Gambling in Western Culture

by Gerda Reith

A sociological and historical study of gambling and the changing meaning of chance in Western thought, from divination and providence to probability theory and the modern casino. Reith examines why gamblers so often treat random events as meaningful.

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