Inside the Illicit Economy
Reconstructing the Smugglers' Trade of Sixteenth Century Bristol
From the moment governments began making money from levying duty on imported goods, a smuggling trade developed to avoid paying such taxes. Whilst the popular image of historic smuggling remains a romantic one, this book makes clear that the illicit trade could be a large-scale and systematic business that relied on the connivance of well-connected merchants. Taking the port of Bristol as a case study, the book provides the most sophisticated historical study ever undertaken of the smugglers' trade, in England or abroad. Following on from the author's prize-winning article in Economic History Review, the volume employs the business accounts…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-11607-3
- EAN: 9781317116073
- Produktnummer: 20175861
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 266 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 18'292 KB
Über den Autor
Dr Evan T. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Bristol, UK
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