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Inside the Illicit Economy: Reconstructing the Smugglers' Trade of Sixteenth Century Bristol

Inside the Illicit Economy: Reconstructing the Smugglers' Trade of Sixteenth Century Bristol

Jones, Evan T.

Hardcover

EconomicsGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1409440192
ISBN13: 9781409440192
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 28 2012
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Whilst the popular image of smugglers remains an essentially romantic one, this book makes clear that smuggling was a large-scale systematic business reliant upon the connivance of well-connected merchants. Taking the port of Bristol as a case study, it provides the most sophisticated historical study of the smugglers' trade, ever undertaken anywhere in the world. What distinguishes it from previous studies of smuggling is that it uses the business accounts of sixteenth-century merchants to reconstruct their illicit operations. It examines how and why the illicit trade developed, why the Crown was unable to suppress it and the role smuggling played within Bristol's wider economy.

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