Wagers Across Centuries: How Western Europe Learned to Live With Risk
Western Europe's relationship with organized gambling did not develop along a single trajectory — it fractured early and remained fractured, producing regulatory philosophies as distinct as the cultures that generated them. The Mediterranean south approached chance with a fatalism rooted in Catholic theology; the Protestant north treated it as a moral problem requiring administrative...
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