Description: 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. Andrew Wender Cohen is associate professor of history at Syracuse University. He lives with his family in central New York.
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EAN: 9780393065336
UPC: 9780393065336
ISBN: 9780393065336
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Book Title: Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the America
Item Length: 23.9 cm
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: History, Criminology
Item Height: 244 mm
Item Weight: 757 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Andrew Wender Cohen
Item Width: 165 mm
Format: Hardcover
