Sixpence at Whist: Gaming and the English Middle Classes, 1680-1830

Peering through the windows of private homes and Assembly Rooms alike, this book shines a new light on the middle classes during the long eighteenth century.

Enlightenment thinking - the drive for order, organisation and rationality - was an underlying motive force in England''s eighteenth century, influencing middle class thinking with regard to the running and improvement of business.In the same ...