Contraband : Louis Mandrin and the making of a global underground /

Main Description:Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kwass, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Mandrin, Louis, > 1725-1755.
1700-1799
Criminals > France > Biography.
Smugglers > France > Biography.
Smuggling > France > History > 18th century.
Contrebandiers > France > Biographies.
Contrebande > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Commerce.
Criminals.
Economic history.
Smugglers.
Smuggling.
Social conditions
France > Commerce > History > 18th century.
France > Economic conditions > 18th century.
France > Social conditions > 18th century.
France > Commerce > Histoire > 18e siècle.
France > Conditions économiques > 18e siècle.
France > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
France.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The globalization of European consumption
  • The king intervenes
  • The making of a smuggler
  • The shadow economy
  • Rebel rebel
  • Triumph
  • The would-be general
  • Captured
  • The execution of Louis Mandrin
  • Mandrin into print
  • Smuggling in the enlightenment
  • Revolution.

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