Name: Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (en Inglés)
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Author: Fabian, Ann
ISBN: 9781138402447

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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

Ann Fabian

Editorial

Routledge

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

264

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781138402447

Categorías

Sociedad y cultura: general
Historia

Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (en Inglés)

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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.