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Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle
- Title
- Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle / Mark Braude.
- Author
- Braude, Mark.
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich, only to be crushed under it's own weight ten years later"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Upper class > Monaco > Monte-Carlo > Biography
- Rich people > Monaco > Monte-Carlo > Biography
- Monte-Carlo (Monaco) > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Monte-Carlo (Monaco) > History > 20th century
- Gambling > Monaco > Monte-Carlo > History > 20th century
- Casinos > Monaco > Monte-Carlo > History > 20th century
- Monte-Carlo (Monaco) > Biography
- Celebrities > Monaco > Monte-Carlo > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Monte Carlo stories -- The cunning and the easily duped -- The art of misdirection -- The antechamber of death -- Complete disorder reigns -- We do not approve of gaming houses -- A whole town remains to be built! -- This little paradise -- Karl Marx's cough -- Prodigal sons and wayward daughters -- Monaco at war -- The merchant of death -- Salvation by exile -- The blue train -- A monument to frivolity -- Enter Elsa -- The fast life -- One-way street -- Postscript: Faites vos jeux.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5384
- ISBN
- 9781476709697
- 1476709696
- LCCN
- 2015008580
- OCLC
- 2015008580
- Author
- Braude, Mark.
- Title
- Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle / Mark Braude.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5384