University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Green Table: Gambling Casinos, Capitalist Culture, and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Abstract
dc:descriptionI draw on work in the sociology of risk to suggest that the increased role of chance in human affairs produced new claims of elite political and economic control and a willingness to use leisure activities like gambling to legitimize positions of power. The tension between this emerging ruling class and the radical social mobility on display at casinos helped define the unique mixture of universalism and exclusion that characterized nineteenth-century German liberalism. The case of the gambling casino illustrates that even as legal inequality gradually disappeared from European polities, hierarchy and status difference were re-inscribed on a new basis, rooted in cultural distinction and the ability to make decisions in risky circumstances.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Carter, Everett John
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Liebersohn, Harry
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3069979
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84633