@contents:Introduction 1. "City and Country Run Mad After Riches:" English Lotteries from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 2. Crossing the Pond: Public and Private Lotteries in Colonial America 3. "A Scheme of a Lottery:" The Mechanics of Colonial Lotteries and Interpreting a Lottery Advertisement 4. Lotteries, the Consumer Revolution, and Changing Notions of Fortuna 5. "Inexpedient and Improper:" The End of Colonial Lotteries and the Beginning of Lotteries in the United States Conclusion
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.
