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Smuggler nation, how illicit trade made America, Peter Andreas

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Smuggler nation, how illicit trade made America, Peter Andreas

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-425) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Smuggler nation

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

781680677

Responsibility statement

Peter Andreas

Sub title

how illicit trade made America

Summary

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. Contraband, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism. Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As the author shows, it goes back not just years but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting but also empowering AmericaFar 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

Table Of Contents

A nation of smugglers -- The Colonial Era. The golden age of illicit trade -- The smuggling road to revolution -- The smuggling war of independence. -- The EarlyRepublic. Contraband and embargo busting in the new nation -- Traitorous traders and patriotic pirates -- The illicit industrial revolution. -- Westward Expansion, Slavery, and the Civil War. Bootleggers and fur traders in Indian country -- Illicit slavers and the perpetuation of the slave trade -- Blood cotton and blockade runners. -- The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Tariff evaders and enforcers -- Sex, smugglers, and purity crusaders -- Coming to America through the back door -- Rumrunners and prohibitionists. -- Into the Modern Age. 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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