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Contraband

Author : Michael Kwass
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674369645
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Contraband written by Michael Kwass and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that transformed the French kingdom. Contraband exposes the dark side of this early phase of globalization, revealing hidden connections between illicit commerce, criminality, and popular revolt. France's economic system was tailor-made for an enterprising outlaw like Mandrin. As French subjects began to crave colonial products, Louis XIV lined the royal coffers by imposing a state monopoly on tobacco from America and an embargo on brilliantly colored calico cloth from India. Vigorous black markets arose through which traffickers fed these exotic goods to eager French consumers. Flouting the law with unparalleled panache, Mandrin captured widespread public attention to become a symbol of a defiant underground. This furtive economy generated violent clashes between gangs of smugglers and customs agents in the borderlands. Eventually, Mandrin was captured by French troops and put to death in a brutal public execution intended to demonstrate the king's absolute authority. But the spectacle only cemented Mandrin's status as a rebel folk hero in an age of mounting discontent. Amid cycles of underground rebellion and agonizing penal repression, the memory of Mandrin inspired ordinary subjects and Enlightenment philosophers alike to challenge royal power and forge a movement for radical political change.

Diary of a Contraband

Author : William Benjamin Gould
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747080
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Contraband written by William Benjamin Gould and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in European waters pursuing Confederate ships constructed in Great Britain and France. Gould’s diary is one of only three known diaries of African American sailors in the Civil War. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone (often deliberately understated and sardonic), but also by its reflections on war, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the war. The book includes introductory chapters that establish the context of the diary narrative, an annotated version of the diary, a brief account of Gould’s life in Massachusetts after the war, and William B. Gould IV’s thoughts about the legacy of his great-grandfather and his own journey of discovery in learning about this remarkable man.

Contraband

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101667389
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Contraband written by Stuart Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone Barrington is caught in the web of a national smuggling operation in the latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Stone Barrington is getting some much-needed rest and relaxation in the Florida sun when trouble falls from the sky--literally. Intrigued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding this event, Stone joins forces with a sharp-witted and alluring local detective to investigate. But they run into a problem: the evidence keeps disappearing. From the laid-back Key West shores to the bustling Manhattan streets, Stone sets out to connect the dots between the crimes that seem to follow him wherever he travels. His investigations only lead to more questions, and shocking connections between old and new acquaintances. But as Stone must quickly learn, answers--and enemies--are often hiding in plain sight . . .

Taryn Simon

Author : Hans Ulrich Obrist
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783775739719
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Taryn Simon written by Hans Ulrich Obrist and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2015 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of 1,075 photographs, taken by American photographer Taryn Simon, of detained or seized items from passengers and express mail entering the United States from abroad, taken at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York.

Contraband

Author : George John Whyte-Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contraband written by George John Whyte-Melville and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What is Contraband of War, and what is Not. Comprising All the American and English Authorities on the Subject

Author : Joseph Moseley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book What is Contraband of War, and what is Not. Comprising All the American and English Authorities on the Subject written by Joseph Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contraband

Author : Andrew Wender Cohen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393065332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Contraband written by Andrew Wender Cohen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world. In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of Smugglers,” and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a nation whose founders themselves had once dabbled in contraband. Since the Revolution itself, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs on most imports. Protecting the nation was the custom house, which waged a “war on smuggling,” inspecting every traveler for illicitly imported silk, opium, tobacco, sugar, diamonds, and art. The Civil War’s blockade of the Confederacy heightened the obsession with contraband, but smuggling entered its prime during the Gilded Age, when characters like assassin Louis Bieral, economist “The Parsee Merchant,” Congressman Ben Butler, and actress Rose Eytinge tempted consumers with illicit foreign luxuries. Only as the United States became a global power with World War I did smuggling lose its scurvy romance. Meticulously researched, Contraband explores the history of smuggling to illuminate the broader history of the United States, its power, its politics, and its culture.

Border Contraband

Author : George T. Díaz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292761066
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Border Contraband written by George T. Díaz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2015 Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just. In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the border shifted their emphasis to the interdiction of prohibited items (particularly guns and drugs) that threatened the state. Díaz's pioneering research explains how greater restrictions have transformed smuggling from a low-level mundane activity, widely accepted and still routinely practiced, into a highly profitable professional criminal enterprise.

Law of Contraband of War

Author : Frederic Thomas Pratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law of Contraband of War written by Frederic Thomas Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creolization and Contraband

Author : Linda M. Rupert
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343056
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Creolization and Contraband written by Linda M. Rupert and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhen CuraÃ§ao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and CuraÃ§ao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island's main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern CuraÃ§ao. The other was smuggling. Both developments, she argues, were informal adaptations to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires thrust different peoples together. Creolization and Contraband uses the history of CuraÃ§ao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers, smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction. Far from marginal, these extra-official exchanges were the very building blocks of colonial society./div

Modes of redress; war; maritime war; prize courts; contraband; blockade; neutrality

Author : John Bassett Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modes of redress; war; maritime war; prize courts; contraband; blockade; neutrality written by John Bassett Moore and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contraband Tobacco in Canad

Author :
Publisher : The Fraser Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contraband Tobacco in Canad written by and published by The Fraser Institute. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contraband Cell Phones in Correctional Facilities

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Contraband Cell Phones in Correctional Facilities written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Neutral Merchant in Relation to the Law of Contraband of War

Author : Francis Taylor Piggott
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Neutral Merchant in Relation to the Law of Contraband of War written by Francis Taylor Piggott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Neutral Merchant in Relation to the Law of Contraband of War" by Francis Taylor Piggott. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Neutral Merchant; In relation to the law of contraband of war and blockade under the order in Council of 11th March, 1915

Author : Francis Taylor Piggott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338731034X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Neutral Merchant; In relation to the law of contraband of war and blockade under the order in Council of 11th March, 1915 written by Francis Taylor Piggott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Law of Contraband of War: with a Selection of Cases from the Papers of the right hon. Sir Ges. Lee ... and an Appendix containing Extracts from Treaties, Miscellaneous Papers, and Forms of Proceedings

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Author : Frederic Thomas Pratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Law of Contraband of War: with a Selection of Cases from the Papers of the right hon. Sir Ges. Lee ... and an Appendix containing Extracts from Treaties, Miscellaneous Papers, and Forms of Proceedings written by Frederic Thomas Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Is the Military Postal System a Conduit for Drugs and Other Contraband?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Is the Military Postal System a Conduit for Drugs and Other Contraband? written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: