Book Review: Harris, Bob. (2022). Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 316 pp. ISBN: 9781009067348

Folarin Ajibade

doi:10.29173/cgs149

Book Review: Harris, Bob. (2022). Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 316 pp. ISBN: 9781009067348

Authors

Folarin Ajibade New York University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1213-6864

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs149

Abstract

Book Review: Harris, Bob. (2022). Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 316 pp. ISBN: 9781009067348

Author Biography

Folarin Ajibade, New York University

Folarin Ajibade is a PhD candidate in History at New York University. He is currently writing a dissertation about the longue durée history of gambling in Nigeria. In it, he examines the relationship between the everyday life of gambling and the Nigerian political economy between the colonial and the postcolonial period. He is broadly interested in histories of popular culture, economic life and the everyday

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Published

2023-03-31

How to Cite

Ajibade, F. (2023). Book Review: Harris, Bob. (2022). Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 316 pp. ISBN: 9781009067348. Critical Gambling Studies, 4(1), 90–92. https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs149