Smuggler nation
how illicit trade made America
- ISBN: 9780199360987
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2013
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 454
- Idiomas: Inglés
Smuggler Nation is the first book that retells the story of America and its foreign relations as a series of intense battles over illicit trade. As Andreas argues in this fascinating and provocative account, clandestine commerce-and campaigns to suppress it-has played a vital but too often overlooked role in America's birth, economic and political development, and emergence as a global power
Preface ; Introduction: A Nation of Smugglers ; PART I. The Colonial Era ; 1. The Golden Age of Illicit Trade ; 2. The Smuggling Road to Revolution ; 3. The Smuggling War of Independence ; PART II. The Early Republic ; 4. Contraband and Embargo Busting in the New Nation ; 5. Traitorous Traders and Patriot Pirates ; 6. The Illicit Industrial Revolution ; PART III. Westward Expansion, Slavery, and the Civil War ; 7. Bootleggers and Fur Traders in Indian Country ; 8. Illicit Slavers and the Perpetuation of the Slave Trade ; 9. Blood Cotton and Blockade-Runners ; PART IV. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era ; 10. Tariff Evaders and Enforcers ; 11. Sex, Smugglers, and Purity Crusaders ; 12. Coming to America Through the Backdoor ; 13. Rumrunners and Prohibitionists ; PART V. Into the Modern Age ; 14. America's Century-long Drug War ; 15. Border Wars and the Underside of Economic Integration ; 16. America and Illicit Globalization in the 21st Century ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Index
