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Author : Peter Andreas
Release : 2013-03-21
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Smuggler Nation by : Peter Andreas
Download or read book Smuggler Nation written by Peter Andreas. This book was released on 2013-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the story of America--and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world--as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine commerce.
Author : Max Gallien
Release : 2024-02-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 615/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Smugglers and States by : Max Gallien
Download or read book Smugglers and States written by Max Gallien. This book was released on 2024-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smuggling is typically thought of as furtive and hidden, taking place under the radar and beyond the reach of the state. But in many cases, governments tacitly permit illicit cross-border commerce, or even devise informal arrangements to regulate it. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the borderlands of Tunisia and Morocco, Max Gallien explains why states have long tolerated illegal trade across their borders and develops new ways to understand the political economy of smuggling. This book examines the rules and agreements that govern smuggling in North Africa, tracing the involvement of states in these practices and their consequences for borderland communities. Gallien demonstrates that, contrary to common assumptions about the effects of informal economies, smuggling can promote both state and social stability. States not only turn a blind eye to smuggling, they rely on it to secure political acquiescence and maintain order, because it provides income for otherwise neglected border communities. More recently, however, the securitization of borders, wars, political change, and the pandemic have put these arrangements under pressure. Gallien explores the renegotiation of the role of smuggling, showing how stability turns into vulnerability and why some groups have been able to thrive while others have been pushed further to the margins. With both rich empirical detail and novel theoretical contributions, Smugglers and States offers important insights into security and stability in North Africa and the prospects for economic inclusion in a context where many livelihoods exist outside of the law.
Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
Release : 2008-10-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Secret Trades, Porous Borders by : Eric Tagliacozzo
Download or read book Secret Trades, Porous Borders written by Eric Tagliacozzo. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success. The book presents a history of the evolution of this 3000-km frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband: who smuggled and why, what routes were favored, and how effectively the British and Dutch were able to enforce their economic, moral, and political will. Examining the history of states and smugglers playing off one another within a hidden but powerful economy of forbidden cargoes, the book also offers new insights into the modern political economies of Southeast Asia.
Author : Ernest Obadele-Starks
Release : 2007-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Freebooters and Smugglers by : Ernest Obadele-Starks
Download or read book Freebooters and Smugglers written by Ernest Obadele-Starks. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1891 a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: “Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine.” One law in particular he was referring to was the Abolition Act of 1808. It was specifically passed to end the foreign slave trade. However, as Ernest Obadele-Starks shows, thanks to profiteering smugglers like the Lafitte brothers and the Bowie brothers, the slave trade persisted throughout the south for a number of years after the law was passed. Freebooters and Smugglers examines the tactics and strategies that the adherents of the foreign slave trade used to challenge the law. It reassesses the role that Americans played in the continuation of foreign slave transshipments into the country right up to the Civil War, shedding light on an important topic that has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the slave trade.
Author : George T. Diaz
Release : 2010
Genre : Smuggling
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Book Synopsis Contrabandista Communities by : George T. Diaz
Download or read book Contrabandista Communities written by George T. Diaz. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contrabandista Communities" is a transnational examination of illicit trade that combines social, economic, and new borderlands approaches. It considers how states regulate and prohibit trade on their borders and how border people subvert state laws through smuggling. The creation of the Rio Grande as an international boundary at the end of the U.S.-Mexico War upset customary trade patterns by placing international regulations on what had once been local commerce. What had traditionally been local trade became subject to high international tariffs. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary taxation, borderlanders on both sides of the river developed a moral economy of illicit trade, or a contrabandista community, which accepted some forms of smuggling as just. This moral economy persisted in the wake of increased policing by the U.S. and Mexican governments in the early twentieth century. Although arms, alcohol, and narcotics traffickers threatened to upset the moral economy of illicit trade by prompting increased state policing, criminal traffickers inadvertently reinforced state tolerance of low level illicit trade by prompting states to concentrate their limited resources combating drug and gun trafficking which posed a greater threat to the state.
