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Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas

Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas

Franke, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Worlds of Consumption

General United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3031330943
ISBN13: 9783031330940
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 14 2023
Pages: 253
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces and architecture were carefully designed to enable a rapid growth of the casino industry and produce experiences on previous unimaginable scale. Feeling Lucky, is a making of story, about cities which acquired a strange and captivating allure of mystery around them. It is more than a mere descriptive account, however. Combining urban history, the history of consumption, and sociological approaches it presents a compelling comparative history of Monte Carlo and the Las Vegas Strip between the 1860s and 1970s.

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