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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
- Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America
Engelsk
Bogcover for Card Sharps and Bucket Shops af Ann Fabian, 9780415923576
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780415923576
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415923573
Udg. Dato:
19 mar 1999
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
19 mar 1999
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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops

- Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America
Engelsk
Paperback 1999
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In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ran counter to deeply ingrained American--and Protestant--work ethics, only gambling took on a stigma that made other efforts to acquire wealth socially acceptable. Fabian considers here the reformers who sought to ban gambling; psychological explanations for the deviant gambler; numbers games in the African American community; and efforts by speculators to draw distinctions between their own activities and gambling. She combines first-rate cultural analysis with rigorous research, and along the way provides a wealth of colorful details, characters and anecdotes.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780415923576
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415923573
Udg. Dato:
19 mar 1999
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
19 mar 1999
Forfatter(e):
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