Smuggling Seven Centuries of Contraband 1st Edition by Simon Harvey ISBN 178023595X 9781780235950

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ISBN 10: 178023595X
ISBN 13: 9781780235950
Author: Simon Harvey

A cellar door creaked open in the middle of the night, or a hand slipping quickly into a trenchcoat—the most compelling transactions are surely those we never see. Smuggling can conjure images of adventure and rebellion in popular culture—Han Solo knew all about it, as did Al Capone—but as Simon Harvey shows in this fascinating book, smuggling has had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the world. Shining a light onto seven centuries of dark history, he illuminates a world of intrigue and fortunes, hinged on outlaw desires and those who have been willing to fulfill them.
           
Harvey tells this story by focusing on the most coveted contrabands of their time. In the Age of Discovery, these were silk, spices, and silver. During the days of western empires, they were gold, opium, tea, and rubber. And in modern times it has been, of course, drugs. To the side of these major commodities, he looks at a wide array of things that have always been in smugglers’ trunks, from guns to art to—the most dangerous of all—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 have made smuggling, at one point or another, part of their modus operandi. Beneath this, Harvey traces out the smaller-time smugglers, the micro-economies of everyday goods, precious objects, and people, drawing the whole story together into a map of a subterranean world crisscrossed by smugglers’ paths.
           
All told, this is the story of the unrelenting drive of markets to subvert the law, of the invisible seams that have sewn the globe together. 

Smuggling Seven Centuries of Contraband 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction

1. What Is Smuggling?

2. The Allure of the Illicit Trade

3. A Brief Overview of Seven Centuries

Part I: Medieval Origins

4. Smugglers of the Crown: 14th–15th Centuries

5. Wool, Wine, and the English Coastline

6. Pirates, Privateers, and Black Markets

Part II: Early Modern Contraband

7. Tobacco, Tea, and Treason: 16th–17th Centuries

8. Colonial Powers and the Rise of Global Smuggling

9. Smuggling in the Age of Sail

Part III: The Golden Age of Smuggling

10. Spirits and Silks: 18th Century Underground Trade

11. The Smuggler as Folk Hero

12. Coastal Watchmen and Revenue Men

Part IV: Industrial Shadows

13. The Steam Age and Cross-Border Trafficking

14. Guns, Gold, and Opium: 19th Century Trade Routes

15. The Role of Empires in Illicit Economies

Part V: 20th Century and Beyond

16. Prohibition and the Birth of Modern Smuggling Networks

17. War, Borders, and Black Markets

18. Drugs, Diamonds, and the Global Underworld

Part VI: Modern Contraband

19. Human Trafficking and Digital Smuggling

20. Art, Antiquities, and the Illicit Cultural Trade

21. Technology, Surveillance, and the Future of Smuggling

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