[Read download] Gentlemen & Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844
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| #4606443 in Books | 2010-07-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x1.00 x6.00l,1.32 | File Name: 0297844598 | 288 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Attention to detail...whatever the cost?|By Alan R Aitken|If anything, this book is a touch drier than it needed to be by virtue of attention to minute details behind and under what took place around the 1844 Epsom Derby and the personalities. Having said that, it would be a cruel offence for which to be hung these days when attempts at historical accuracy are given third bill||"smartly told. an absorbing glimpse into the paddock where what we know as 'Victorianism' took its first tentative steps" -- DJ Taylor FINANCIAL TIMES "Foulkes manages in this book to be sports writer, crime writer and historian with equal facility." -- Nick
In the early 19th century, gambling was a grave social ill—largely uncontrolled and corrupt. The 1830s saw the institution of the Poor Law, the abolition of slavery, the regulation of child labor, the birth of the police force, and the widening of parliamentary representation. But, as far as gambling was concerned, the beginning of 1844 saw things much as they had been since the 18th century: games of faro, hazard, whist, and roulette could be played in ... [PDF.ez43] Gentlemen & Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844 Rating: 3.96 (414 Votes)
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