Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America

Ann Fabian

Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 March 1999
Pages
266
ISBN
9780415923576

Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America

Ann Fabian

Engaging topics in American cultural, social and business history, this text provides details of gambling in industrializing America. It investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment in the 19th century, and explores the moral and cultural implications of this relationship.

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