Smuggler nation : how illicit trade made America /
Andreas, Peter, 1965-
Smuggler nation : how illicit trade made America / Peter Andreas. - New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xiii, 454 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-425) and index.
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.
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. 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.
English.
9780199301607 (electronic bk.) 0199301603 (electronic bk.) 9781299456990 (MyiLibrary) 1299456995 (MyiLibrary) 0199301611 9780199301614
476949 MIL
Smuggling--History.--United States
Contrebande--Histoire.--États-Unis
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
HJ6690 / .A74 2013eb
364.1/3360973
Smuggler nation : how illicit trade made America / Peter Andreas. - New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xiii, 454 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-425) and index.
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.
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. 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.
English.
9780199301607 (electronic bk.) 0199301603 (electronic bk.) 9781299456990 (MyiLibrary) 1299456995 (MyiLibrary) 0199301611 9780199301614
476949 MIL
Smuggling--History.--United States
Contrebande--Histoire.--États-Unis
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
HJ6690 / .A74 2013eb
364.1/3360973