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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 Ame

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who ro

An in-depth history of how finance remade everyday life in Thatcher's Britain. Are We Rich Yet? tells the story of the financialization of British society. Duri