Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):366-368; doi:10.1093/es/khn025
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David G. Schwartz. Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling
New York: Gotham Books, 2006. xix + 570 pp. ISBN 1-592-40208-9, $30.00 (hardcover)
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David Schwartz appears to be the perfect author to take on a global history of gambling: he was born in Atlantic City, has worked in and written about the gaming industry, received a PhD in history from UCLA, and is the director of the Center for Gaming Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Roll the Bones is an encyclopedic narrative of gambling, covering six continents from the earliest times to the present. While
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