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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
By Cohen, Andrew Wender
- ISBN
- 9780393065336 9780393241983
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Cohen (history, Syracuse Univ.; The Racketeer's Progress) traces the trajectory of Americans' involvement with the importation of either expressly banned goods or the surreptitious transportation of items to avoid payment of duties; emphasizing the epoch between the Civil War and the beginning of the 20th century. He suggests that, ultimately, free traders in a country on the rise to global status engage frequ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
