Smuggler nation : how illicit trade made America /

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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 worker...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andreas, Peter, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Temas:
Smuggling > United States > History.
Contrebande > États-Unis > Histoire.
TRUE CRIME > General.
Commerce
Economic history
International economic relations
Smuggling
United States > Commerce > History.
United States > Foreign economic relations.
United States > Economic conditions.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
United States
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The golden age of illicit trade
  • The smuggling road to revolution
  • The smuggling war of independence
  • Contraband and embargo busting in the new nation
  • Traitorous traders and patriotic pirates
  • The illicit industrial revolution
  • Bootleggers and fur traders in Indian country
  • Illicit slavers and the perpetuation of the slave trade
  • Blood cotton and blockade-runners
  • Tariff evaders and enforcers
  • Sex, smugglers, and purity crusaders
  • Coming to America through the back door
  • Rumrunners and prohibitionists
  • America's century-long drug war
  • Border wars and the underside of economic integration
  • America and illicit globalization in the twenty-first century.

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