Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Three Wise Monkeys, EPUB eBook

Three Wise Monkeys EPUB

EPUB

Download - Immediately Available
Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa's long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries.

The opposition of the Calvinist churches - both Afrikaans and English-speaking - had its counterpart in the eager embrace of games of chance by the white working class on the Witwatersrand.

Focusing on the career of Rufe Naylor, an Australian bookmaker, horse dealer and entrepreneur who, with the help of a defrocked Portuguese Catholic priest, ran the Lourenco Marques Lottery, The Quest for Wealth without Work shows howthe efforts of church and state to control the leisure time and morals of the working class intersected with the need to ensure the flow of cheap mine labour from Mozambique.

Ultimately, in the suppression of the Lourenço Marques Lottery – and in campaigns against pinball machines, dogracing and other 'social evils' – can be seen the emerging outlines of the apartheid police state.

Information

Other Formats

Save 20%

£11.09

£8.87

Download - Immediately Available
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Delivered to your inbox

to transfer to your device

eBook Help

Is this the right eBook for
my device? How do I download
this eBook? See help and FAQs pages

Information