HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Braude, Mark, author.
Subjects
Gambling -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.
Casinos -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.
Celebrities -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.
Upper class -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.
Rich people -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- History -- 20th century.
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Braude, Mark, author.
by title:
Making Monte Carlo :...
MARC Display
Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle / Mark Braude.
by
Braude, Mark, author.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Subjects
Gambling -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.
Casinos -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.
Celebrities -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.
Upper class -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.
Rich people -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- History -- 20th century.
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781476709697 (hardcover) :
1476709696 (hardcover)
Description:
ix, 289 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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 -- Archival sources.
Requests:
0
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.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
944.949 Br
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
944.949 Br
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.