The Smugglers' World : Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela /
The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuel...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Old habits : commercial neglect and peripheral innovation in early Venezuela
- Socialized into smuggling : the consumer culture of the black market
- New cures : the Caracas Company, the crown, and commercial control
- Networking statelessness in a bordered world : foreign smugglers
- The societal ties of smuggling : Venezuelan merchants
- "Men of good who will harm no one" : Venezuelan officials
- Contrabandists or cargo? : People of color, smuggling, and the illicit slave trade
- The political power of covert commerce : the rebellion of Juan Francisco de León, 1749-1751.