Better Betting With a Decent Feller

Better Betting With a Decent Feller Bookmaking, Betting, and the British Working Class, 1750-1990

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780710812889
Publisher: Harvester Wheatsheaf
Imprint: Harvester Wheatsheaf
Pub date:
DEWEY: 363.420941
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 306
Weight: 587g
Height: 238mm
Width: 154mm