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Better Betting With a Decent Feller: Bookmaking, Betting and the British Working Class, 1750-1990
Better Betting With a Decent Feller Bookmaking Betting and the British Working Class 17501990
Author: Carl Chinn
This is a social history of betting from the 18th century to the present day. It examines the growth of the pursuit as a semi-criminal phenomenon before bookmaking and its gradual evolution into a popular and more or less respectable form of recreation and speculation.
ISBN-13: 9780710812889
ISBN-10: 0710812884
Pages: 587
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Publisher: Harvester Wheatsheaf
Book Type: Hardcover
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