Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 747 g
How Illicit Trade Made America
Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 747 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-974688-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era.
Providing a sweeping narrative history from colonial times to the present, Smuggler Nation is the first book to retell 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. As Peter Andreas demonstrates in this provocative and fascinating account, smuggling has played a pivotal and too often overlooked role in America's birth, westward expansion, and economic development, while
anti-smuggling campaigns have dramatically enhanced the federal government's policing powers. The great irony, Andreas tells us, is that a country that was born and grew up through smuggling is today the world's leading anti-smuggling crusader.
In tracing America's long and often tortuous relationship with the murky underworld of smuggling, Andreas provides a much-needed antidote to today's hyperbolic depictions of out of control borders and growing global crime threats. Urgent calls by politicians and pundits to regain control of the nation's borders suffer from a severe case of historical amnesia, nostalgically implying that they were ever actually under control. This is pure mythology, says Andreas. For better and for worse,
America's borders have always been highly porous.
Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As Andreas shows, it goes back not just years but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting but also empowering America.
Zielgruppe
General readers; students and scholars of American History, American Politics, International Studies, and Criminology.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1 - THE GOLDEN AGE OF ILLICIT TRADE
Chapter 2 - THE SMUGGLING ROAD TO REVOLUTION
Chapter 3 - THE SMUGGLING WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Chapter 4 - CONTRABAND AND EMBARGO BUSTING IN THE NEW NATION
Chapter 5 - TRAITOROUS TRADERS AND PATRIOT PIRATES
Chapter 6 - THE ILLICIT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Chapter 7 - BOOTLEGGERS AND FUR TRADERS IN INDIAN COUNTRY
Chapter 8 - AMERICAN COMPLICITY IN THE ILLICIT SLAVE TRADE
Chapter 9 - COTTON AND CONTRABAND IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Chapter 10 - TARIFF ENFORCERS AND EVADERS IN THE GILDED AGE
Chapter 11 - SEX, SMUGGLERS, AND PURITY CRUSADERS
Chapter 12 - AMERICA'S BACKDOOR AND THE ORIGINS OF IMMIGRATION CONTROL
Chapter 13 - RUMRUNNERS AND PROHIBITIONISTS
Chapter 14 - AMERICA'S CENTURY-LONG DRUG WAR
Chapter 15 - BORDER WARS AND THE ILLICIT SIDE OF ECONONOMIC INTEGRATION
Chapter 16 - AMERICA AND ILLICIT GLOBALIZATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
EPILOGUE
