Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture

by Thomas M. Kavanagh

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238605
• ISBN13: 9780812238600
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"