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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Ann Fabian's study is a genuinely original work that stimulates readers to re-think many familiar--and unfamiliar--aspects of nineteenth-century American culture, as well as its legacy in the twentieth.
–John Kasson, author of Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth Century Urban America
A series of finely crafted essays on a common theme: the difficulty of distinguishing between licit and illicit gambling in American market culture. Her book is a fresh, imaginative foray into virtually uncharted territory..
Ann Fabian's probes into the underside of nineteenth-century Jackson Lears, The New Republict and illumination. Her book shows us the American work ethic turned inside out.
–Daniel T. Rodgers, author of The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 and Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence
–John Kasson, author of Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth Century Urban America
A series of finely crafted essays on a common theme: the difficulty of distinguishing between licit and illicit gambling in American market culture. Her book is a fresh, imaginative foray into virtually uncharted territory..
Ann Fabian's probes into the underside of nineteenth-century Jackson Lears, The New Republict and illumination. Her book shows us the American work ethic turned inside out.
–Daniel T. Rodgers, author of The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 and Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence
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Ann Fabian teaches History at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming Plain Unvarnished Tales: True Stories from Nineteenth-Century America.
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When Robert Bailey published his autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Robert Bailey from his Infancy up to December, 1821, he announced that he had abandoned his career as a gambler and gambling-house proprietor and that he intended to support himself, his sixteen-year-old wife, and their twin sons, Esau and Jacob, with the proceeds from the sale of his book and from his patented faro box. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lottery bettors, gambling reform, country speculators, gambling tales, agrarian critics, reformed gambler, numbers bettors, negative analogue, policy players, recreational gambling, real wheat, wind wheat, subtreasury plan, lottery office, gentry culture, fictitious products, gambling stories, bucket shops, commodities speculators, laws against gambling, grain traders, northern reformers, gambling vice, speculative markets, rational search Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Board of Trade, Ex-Coloured Man, United States, Mississippi Valley, African Americans, National Farmers Alliance, Common Council, Courtesy Yale University Library, Freedman's Savings Bank, House of Burgesses, Intelligence Office, Mercantile Agency, National Police Gazette, The Secret Band of Brothers, William Wilson, Charles Caldwell, Civil War, Freedman's Bank, Gambling Unmasked, John Pintard, Lewis Tappan, Berkeley Springs, House Committee, Jonathan Lurie New!
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When Robert Bailey published his autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Robert Bailey from his Infancy up to December, 1821, he announced that he had abandoned his career as a gambler and gambling-house proprietor and that he intended to support himself, his sixteen-year-old wife, and their twin sons, Esau and Jacob, with the proceeds from the sale of his book and from his patented faro box. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lottery bettors, gambling reform, country speculators, gambling tales, agrarian critics, reformed gambler, numbers bettors, negative analogue, policy players, recreational gambling, real wheat, wind wheat, subtreasury plan, lottery office, gentry culture, fictitious products, gambling stories, bucket shops, commodities speculators, laws against gambling, grain traders, northern reformers, gambling vice, speculative markets, rational search Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Board of Trade, Ex-Coloured Man, United States, Mississippi Valley, African Americans, National Farmers Alliance, Common Council, Courtesy Yale University Library, Freedman's Savings Bank, House of Burgesses, Intelligence Office, Mercantile Agency, National Police Gazette, The Secret Band of Brothers, William Wilson, Charles Caldwell, Civil War, Freedman's Bank, Gambling Unmasked, John Pintard, Lewis Tappan, Berkeley Springs, House Committee, Jonathan Lurie New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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