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Smuggling : contraband and corruption in world history /
In this lively book, Alan L. Karras traces the history of smuggling around the world and explores all aspects of this pervasive and enduring crime. Through a compelling set of cases drawn from a rich array of historical and contemporary sources, Karras shows how smuggling of every conceivable good h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Exploring world history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this lively book, Alan L. Karras traces the history of smuggling around the world and explores all aspects of this pervasive and enduring crime. Through a compelling set of cases drawn from a rich array of historical and contemporary sources, Karras shows how smuggling of every conceivable good has flourished in every place, at every time. Significantly, Karras draws a clear distinction between smugglers and their more popular criminal cousins, pirates, who operated in the open with a type of violencethat was nearly always shunned by smugglers. Explaining the divergence between the two grou. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780742567320 074256732X 1282497421 9781282497429 9786612497421 6612497424 |