Author: Thomas Doyle
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Category : Lotteries
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Five Years in a Lottery Office
Author: Thomas Doyle
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Category : Lotteries
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Lotteries
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
Author: Ann Fabian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113668557X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113668557X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Lectures, Discussions, and Proceedings ...
Author: American Institute of Instruction. Meeting
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Anonyma and Pseudonyma
Author: Charles Archibald Stonehill
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Literary Panorama, and National Register
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Rhode Island Historical Tracts
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Final Report of the Commission to Revise and Codify the Laws of the United States, December 15, 1906
Author: United States. Commission to Revise and Codify the Laws of the United States
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Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings ...
Author: American Institute of Instruction
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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A History of the United States
Author: Edward Channing
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The Literary panorama
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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