Lotteries in Colonial America Image close
Lotteries in Colonial America on Hardback by Neal Millikan
Lotteries in Colonial America on Hardback by Neal Millikan
Show Hide Adult Content
Lotteries in Colonial America close

Non-Fiction Books:

Home  
Books  
Non-Fiction  
Humanities  
History  
American history

Lotteries in Colonial America

Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

By:

Format:

Hardback
$84.99
Available from supplier

The item is brand new and in-stock with one of our preferred suppliers. The item will ship from a Mighty Ape warehouse within the timeframe shown.

Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
0 in Trolley

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

Afterpay is available on orders $100 to $2000 Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

  • Around 4-14 June using International Courier

Explore more Studies in American Popular History and Culture

See all products in this series

Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama by Megan Sanborn Jones
$47.99
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
by Megan Sanborn Jones ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Cleaning Up by Alana Erickson Coble
$62.99
Cleaning Up
by Alana Erickson Coble ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Public Lives, Private Virtues on Hardback by Christopher Harris
$379.99
Public Lives, Private Virtues
by Christopher Harris ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855 by Nancy Hathaway Steenburg
$95.99
Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855
by Nancy Hathaway Steenburg ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
My Pen and My Soul Have Ever Gone Together by Vikki Vickers
$53.99
My Pen and My Soul Have Ever Gone Together
by Vikki Vickers ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Black Women in New South Literature and Culture by Sherita L. Johnson
$96.99
Black Women in New South Literature and Culture
by Sherita L. Johnson ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Hollywood and Anticommunism by John J. Gladchuk
$95.99
Hollywood and Anticommunism
by John J. Gladchuk ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
US Textile Production in Historical Perspective on Hardback by Susan Ouellette
$379.99
US Textile Production in Historical Perspective
by Susan Ouellette ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Studies in the Land on Hardback by David Smith
$381.99
Studies in the Land
by David Smith ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Feminist Revolution in Literacy on Hardback by Junko Onosaka
$382.99
Feminist Revolution in Literacy
by Junko Onosaka ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Labor and Laborers of the Loom on Hardback by Gail Fowler Mohanty
$382.99
Labor and Laborers of the Loom
by Gail Fowler Mohanty ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Piety and Power on Hardback by Leslie Lindenauer
$404.99
Piety and Power
by Leslie Lindenauer ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Public Lives, Private Virtues by Christopher Harris
$100.99
Public Lives, Private Virtues
by Christopher Harris ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century by Holly Berkley Fletcher
$111.99
Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century
by Holly Berkley Fletcher ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama on Hardback by Megan Sanborn Jones
$74.99
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
by Megan Sanborn Jones ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Hardback by Michael Stancliff
$380.99
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
by Michael Stancliff ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

Description

Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. Lotteries provided an alternative form of raising money for colonial governments and a means of subsidizing public and private projects without enacting new taxes. The book also describes and analyzes the role of lotteries in the eighteenth-century consumer revolution, which transformed how buyers viewed the goods they purchased, or in the case of lotteries, won. As the middling classes in the colonies began to acquire objects that went beyond mere necessities, lotteries gave colonists an opportunity to risk a small sum in the hopes of gaining riches or valuable goods. Finally, the book examines how lotteries played a role in the changing notions of fortune in colonial America. Religion and chance were present in colonial lotteries as participants merged their own free will to purchase a lottery ticket with the will of the Christian God to select a winner.

Author Biography:

Neal Millikan received her doctorate in History from the University of South Carolina. She has been the assistant project director of the Digital Edition of the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry, and has been a NHPRC Fellow with the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Release date Australia
April 11th, 2011
Author
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
138
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780415886567
Product ID
10424129

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Recommended for you

Recommended from your browsing history

Help & options

Filed under...

Books >
Non-Fiction >
Humanities >
History >
American history
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Humanities >
History >
History of specific subjects
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Humanities >
History >
History of specific subjects >
Economic history
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Politics & government >
Political ideologies >
Imperialism
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Economic history