Description |
1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Series |
Exploring world history |
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Exploring world history.
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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.
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TRUE CRIME -- General.
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Smuggling. (OCoLC)fst01121775
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Schmuggel
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Karras, Alan L. Smuggling. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2010 9780742553156 (DLC) 2009019439 (OCoLC)349180014 |
ISBN |
9780742567320 (electronic bk.) |
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074256732X (electronic bk.) |
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