Gambling on War, Ransom Roger L.

Автор: Roger L. Ransom
Название: Gambling on War: Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War
ISBN: 1108485022 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108485029
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The First World War left a legacy of chaos that is still with us a century later. Why did European leaders resort to war and why did they not end it sooner? Roger L. Ransom sheds new light on this enduring puzzle by integrating economics and history.

Автор: Karmel
Название: Gambling on the American Dream
ISBN: 1138663581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138663589
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the 1970s. This work uses oral history to focus on the human stories of the region in addition to the broader story of economic and social impacts.

Автор: Michael Flavin
Название: Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel: A Leprosy is Oer the Land
ISBN: 1845192117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845192112
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: Explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. This book also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. It is a useful reading for those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era.

Автор: Vaz Matthew
Название: Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling
ISBN: 022669044X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226690445
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today's lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy.

As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago's south side, police took notice of the illegal business--and took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.