Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 June 2014
- ISBN 9780199360987
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages472 pages
- Size 234x155x33 mm
- Weight 617 g
- Language English 0
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Short 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. 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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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. Contraband capitalism, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism.
Providing a sweeping narrative history from colonial times to the present, Smuggler Nation, now available in paperback 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 work, 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 decades but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting U.S. laws but also helping to fuel America's evolution from a remote British colony to the world's pre-eminent superpower.
Smuggler Nation is one of those rare books that compellingly reconstructs history by examining familiar events through an entirely novel lens ... But Andreas is no mere collector of amusing tales from the underground: rather, in demonstrating that cross-border criminality is nothing new, he counters sensationalistic fearmongers who warn that globalization presents unprecedented dangers and requires more expansive policing ... Smuggler Nation should appeal to libertarians on the right and progressives on the left alike.
Table of 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 Patriot 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 Backdoor
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 21st Century
Epilogue
Notes
Index
