[Free read ebook] Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture (Critical Authors and Issues)
♥ Thomas M. Kavanagh ♥
| #3892209 in Books | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2005-02-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.75 x5.98l,1.18 | File Name: 0812238605 | 264 pages |
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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 cla...
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