[PDF.50kj] Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture (Critical Authors and Issues)

Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture (Critical Authors and Issues)

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 | #5782559 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2005-02-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.75 x5.98l,1.18 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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|| ||"With his connoisseur's knowledge (and manifest love) of the rules, and ruses, of games and the culture that they shape, Kavanagh makes a convincing case that gambling ought to be considered not a moral failing or individual pathology but a conspicuous, and u

Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French culture. Kavanagh argues that the way people gamble tells us something otherwise unrecognized about the values, conflicts, and cultures that define a period or clas...

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