Lotteries in colonial America /
Millikan, Neal Elizabeth.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-118) and index.
"City and country run mad after riches": English lotteries from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Crossing the pond: public and private lotteries in colonial America -- "A scheme of a lottery": the mechanics of colonial lotteries and interpreting a lottery advertisement -- Lotteries, the consumer revolution, and changing notions of fortuna -- "Inexpedient and improper": the end of colonial lotteries and the beginning of lotteries in the United States.
Lotteries