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100 1 _aHarvey, Simon,
245 1 0 _aSmuggling :
_bseven centuries of contraband /
_cSimon Harvey
264 1 _aLondon :
_bReaktion Books,
_c2016
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a333 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-316) and index
505 0 _aIntroduction : Romance, Rebellion and Power -- Part One. Smuggling Explorations -- Great Ambitions : Smuggling in the Age of Discovery -- Monopoly! The Spice Islands and the South China Sea -- Sea of Contraband : The Caribbean and the 'River of Silver' -- A Smuggling Desert L The Spanish Main Today -- A Taste for Contraband : Smuggling Blows Across the World -- Revolution and Resistance : Turning Over the Idea of Smuggling -- Part Two. Smuggling Empires -- Piratical Patriots : Fickle and Pragmatic Smugglers -- Business as Usual : Napoleon's English Smugglers -- Smuggling Worlds : From River Plate to the Red Sea -- Shadow Empire : Addicting China to Smuggled Opium -- Refreshment and Resistance : Too Much Opium, Too Little Tea -- Industrial Revolutions : Slaves, Cinchona, Rubber and Technology -- Part Three. A Smuggling World -- Smuggling Cultures : Looted Treasures -- Bonzenflucht : The Third Reich Smuggles Itself to Argentina -- Black Markets : Everything at a Good Price -- South by Southeast : Air Opium and the Arteries of Indochina -- Cold War Contradictions : Flying into a Storm in Central America -- Contraband of War : American Business and African Diamonds
520 _a"A cellar door creaking open in the middle of the night, or a hand slipping quickly into a trench coat – the most compelling transactions are surely those we never see. Smuggling can conjure images of adventure and rebellion in popular culture, but as this fascinating book shows, it has also had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the world. Shining a light onto seven centuries of dark history, it illuminates a world of intrigue and fortune, hinged on furtive desires and those who have been willing to fulfil them. World-changing contraband has ranged from silk, spices and silver in the Age of Exploration to gold, opium, tea and rubber in times of empire, as well as drugs, people and blood diamonds today. Guns and art have always been smuggled, as have the most dangerous of all contraband – ideas. Central to this story are the (not always) legitimate forces of the Dutch and British East India Companies, the luminaries of the Spanish Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Nazis, Soviet trophy brigades and the CIA, all of whom, at one point or another, have made smuggling part of their business. In addition, Simon Harvey traces out the smaller-time smugglers, the micro-economies of everyday goods, precious objects and people, drawing these stories together into a map of a subterranean world criss-crossed by smugglers’ paths. All told, this is the story of an unrelenting drive of markets to subvert the law, and of the invisible seams that have sewn the globe together."--Book jacket flap
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