附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and indexes.
Preface: Gambling, chance and the suspension of reality -- 1. The idea of chance -- The Age of Faith: The Origins of Chance -- Chance and Determinism -- The Age of Reason: The Birth of Probability -- The Age of Chance: Chance and Modernity -- 2. The pursuit of chance -- Gambling and Divination -- The Seventeenth-Century Explosion -- The Nineteenth Century: Playing with Numbers -- Postscript: The Vortex of Vice -- 3. Playgrounds -- a map of the modern gambling sites -- Modern Gambling -- The Map: A Typology of Gambling -- The Sites: Playgrounds -- 4. The experience of play -- The Experience of Play -- The Categories of Play -- The Varieties of Gambling Experience -- 5. The magical-religious worldview -- The Rejection of Probability -- The Magical Worldview: Participation -- The Religious Worldview: Transcendence.
