Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 2013
471 pages
978-0-19-930160-7 (ISBN)
Description
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, from molasses and gunpowder in colonial times to drug trafficking and migrant smuggling today. 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.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- 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 Patriotic 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 Back Door
- 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 Twenty-First Century
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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