Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-24198-3
- EAN: 9780393241983
- Produktnummer: 34247849
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'239 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 illustrations
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Andrew Wender Cohen is associate professor of history at Syracuse University. He lives with his family in central New York.
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