Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America
Seiten
1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92357-6 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92357-6 (ISBN)
In this highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural and business history, Fabian details gambling in industrializing America and explores its moral and cultural implications.
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.
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.
Ann Fabian teaches History at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming PlainUnvarnished Tales: True Stories from Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica.
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Rich Men, Poor Men 2. The Mind of Economic Man 3. Gambling on the Color Line 4. Devils in Their Gambling Hells Notes Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.4.1999 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 490 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-92357-3 / 0415923573 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-92357-6 / 9780415923576 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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