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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops - Couverture souple

Fabian, Ann

 
9780415923576: Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415923573 ISBN 13 : 9780415923576
Editeur : Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Ann Fabian teaches History at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming PlainUnvarnished Tales: True Stories from Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415923573
ISBN 13 
9780415923576
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Nombre de pages
266
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