A01=Ann Fabian
african american numbers games
Author_Ann Fabian
Berkeley Springs
Bucket Shops
Card Sharps
Card Tricks
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Category=NHTB
Category=WDP
Common Language
deviant behavior psychology
Dream Books
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Evil Gamblers
Ex-Coloured Man
Freedman's Bank
Freedman’s Bank
Gambler's Knowledge
Gambler’s Knowledge
Gambling Transactions
Gentry Culture
John Pintard
National Police Gazette
nineteenth century economic history
Policy Players
Professional Gamblers
protestant work ethic
Real Wheat
Recreational Gambling
Secret Band
Slave Stealers
social reform movements
speculative finance
Subtreasury Plan
Tavern Keepers
Temperance Reformers
Vital Substitute
wealth acquisition stigma in america
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415923576
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Ann Fabian teaches History at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming PlainUnvarnished Tales: True Stories from Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica.
