Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century

Name: Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Brand: Blue Guides Limited of London
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By Cohen, Andrew Wender

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In the frigid winter of 1875, federal agents tracked Charles L. Lawrence, an intimate of Boss Tweed and the most promiscuous smuggler in American history. Leading a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, "Charley" smuggled silk worth $60 million into the United States. Since the American Revolution, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs making the custom house the nation's protector. It waged a "war on smuggling", inspecting every traveller for illicitly imported silk, opium, tobacco, sugar, diamonds and art. The Civil War's blockade of the Confederacy heightened the obsession with contraband but smuggling entered its prime during the Gilded Age and only as the United States became a global power did smuggling lose its scurvy romance.

Product details

Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 384
Release Date:: 2015-10-06
Publication Date:: 2015-08-24
Publisher:: Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0393065332
ISBN13:: 9780393065336
Weight:: 768 g
Height:: 169 cm
Width:: 247 cm
Thickness:: 34 cm

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