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Smuggler nation : how illicit trade made America
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ISBN: 1299456995 0199301603 9780199301607 0199360987 0199746885 9781299456990 9780199746880 0199301611 9780199301614 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era.Providing a sweeping narrative history from colonial times to the present, Smuggler Nation is the first book to retell the story of America-and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world-as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine commerce. As Peter Andreas demonstrates in this provocative and fascinating account, smuggling has played a pivotal and too often overlooked role in America's birth, westward expansion, and economic development, whileanti-smuggling campaigns have dramatically enhanced the federal government's policing powers. The great irony, Andreas tells us, is that a country that was born and grew up through smuggling is today the world's leading anti-smuggling crusader. In tracing America's long and often tortuous relationship with the murky underworld of smuggling, Andreas provides a much-needed antidote to today's hyperbolic depictions of out of control borders and growing global crime threats. Urgent calls by politicians and pundits to regain control of the nation's borders suffer from a severe case of historical amnesia, nostalgically implying that they were ever actually under control. This is pure mythology, says Andreas. For better and for worse,America's borders have always been highly porous. Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As Andreas shows, it goes back not just years but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting but also empowering America.


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Maritime Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows
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ISBN: 9789185114719 Year: 2012 Volume: 32 Publisher: Solna Sipri


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Inside the illicit economy : reconstructing the smugglers' trade of sixteenth century Bristol
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ISBN: 9781138116917 9781409440192 1409440192 9781409440208 1409440206 9786613666901 128068996X 1317116070 9781409483250 1409483258 9781315588759 9781317116066 9781317116073 1315588757 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group

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Whilst the popular image of smugglers remains an essentially romantic one, this book makes clear that smuggling was a large-scale systematic business reliant upon the connivance of well-connected merchants. Taking the port of Bristol as a case study, it provides the most sophisticated historical study of the smugglers' trade, ever undertaken anywhere in the world. What distinguishes it from previous studies of smuggling is that it uses the business accounts of sixteenth-century merchants to reconstruct their illicit operations. It examines how and why the illicit trade developed, why the Crown

To have and have not
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ISBN: 9780299080945 9780299080907 0299080943 0299080900 Year: 1980 Publisher: Madison (Wis.): University of Wisconsin press


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Subverting borders : doing research on smuggling and small-scale trade
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ISBN: 3531177885 9786613355973 1283355973 353193273X Year: 2012 Publisher: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften,

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Small-scale trade and smuggling are part of everyday life at many borders. These trading activities often compensate for economic shortage that many households are suffering from in consequence of e.g. political transformation processes. Despite of the diversity of transborder small-scale trade and smuggling and their wide dispersion, not only in Europe, their reception within social sciences is relatively low. The contributions shed therefore light on research in geography and neighboured disciplines. On the basis of empirical research findings from borders all over the world, the authors thrive to analyse mechanisms and conditions of the informal activities and to detect parallels and differences of informal economic structures from different perspectives. This book is valuable reading for researchers in geography, sociology, ethnography, and in political science.


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Economic gangsters: corruption, violence, and the poverty of nations
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ISBN: 9780691134543 0691134545 9781400828753 9786612157431 1282157434 1400828759 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid. The calculating crook who views stealing and murder as just another part of his business strategy. And, in the wrong set of circumstances, he might just be you. In Economic Gangsters

Techno-bandits
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ISBN: 0395360668 Year: 1984

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Governing guns, preventing plunder
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ISBN: 0199974330 9780199974337 9780199760305 0199760306 9780190206871 0199996180 019020687X 0199950016 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford New York

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From human trafficking to smuggling small arms to looting antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it difficult to establish international cooperation against illicit trade? This book offers a novel, thought-provoking answer to this crucial question.


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Global trade, smuggling, and the making of economic liberalism : Asian textiles in France 1680–1760
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ISBN: 1137444878 1349684716 1137444886 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Imported from India, China, the Levant, and Persia and appreciated for their diversity, designs, fast bright colours and fine weave, Asian textiles became so popular in France that in 1686 the state banned their import, consumption and imitation. A fateful decision. This book tells the story of smuggling on a vast scale, savvy retailers and rebellious consumers. It also reveals how reformers in the French administration itself sponsored a global effort to acquire the technological know-how necessary to produce such textiles and how the vitriolic debates surrounding the eventual abolition of the ban were one of the decisive moments in the development of Enlightenment economic liberalism.

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Textile industry --- Smuggling --- Textile fabrics --- Consumption (Economics) --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- History --- Social aspects --- France --- Asia --- Commerce --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles industry --- Contraband trade --- Rumrunning --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Cloth --- Fabrics --- Textiles --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Manufacturing industries --- Crime --- Customs administration --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Decorative arts --- Dry-goods --- Weaving --- Textile fibers --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Europe-History. --- European History. --- Europe—History. --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Falanxi --- Frankrijk --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- 法蘭西 --- 프랑스

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