Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before the emergence of the nation-…
In der Geschichte des Seehandels unterscheidet man traditionell zwischen erlaubtem Handel und illegalen Praktiken. Doch was wir heute als'unerlaubt'ansehen, wurde bis zur Durchsetzung des souveränen Staates oft als legitim wahrgenommen, weil es innerhalb der Spielregeln des Wirt…
Merchants, pirates, and smugglers: criminalization, economics, and the transformatio…
by Lambert, Bart, Barros, Amandio, Baur, Kilian, Carr, Mike, Christ, Georg, Daniels, Tobias, Dartmann, Christoph, Kelleher, Marie, Krey, Alexander, Meichsner, Michael, Miranda, Flavio, Mozeijko, Beata, Sohmer Tai, Emily, Vognsen Hansen, Frederik
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Foreign aid is one of the most powerful tools at a single state’s disposal. Economically, it can provide much needed support to the poorest of countries or those facing catastrophic conditions. Politically, it can strengthen the current government’s position and provide them wit…
This dissertation examines smugglers as they appeared in English print culture from their first appearance as "smuckellors" in a 1661 Royal Proclamation to 1766 when Parliament repealed the Revenue Act of 1764 amid protests over the government's crackdown on the vital molasses s…
Globalization, which has appeared as advances in transportation, information and telecommunication technologies particularly in the twentieth century, has facilitated international legal activities as well as illegal activities, namely transnational crimes. There were some examp…