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Author Karras, Alan L, author

Title Smuggling : contraband and corruption in world history / Alan L. Karras.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Exploring world history
Exploring world history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Smuggling in regional and global perspective : "truck, barter, and exchange" -- "It's not pirates!" -- The political economy of smuggling -- Smuggling : patterns and practices -- Smuggling, "custom," and legal violations.
Summary In this lively book, Alan L. Karras traces the history of smuggling around the world and explores all aspects of this pervasive and enduring crime. Through a compelling set of cases drawn from a rich array of historical and contemporary sources, Karras shows how smuggling of every conceivable good has flourished in every place, at every time. Significantly, Karras draws a clear distinction between smugglers and their more popular criminal cousins, pirates, who operated in the open with a type of violencethat was nearly always shunned by smugglers. Explaining the divergence between the two grou.
Note Print version record.
Subject Smuggling.
TRUE CRIME -- General.
Smuggling. (OCoLC)fst01121775
Schmuggel
Chronological Term Geschichte
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Karras, Alan L. Smuggling. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2010 9780742553156 (DLC) 2009019439 (OCoLC)349180014
ISBN 9780742567320 (electronic bk.)
074256732X (electronic bk.)
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