Contraband : : Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground /

Contraband : : Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground / / Michael Kwass.

Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Kwass, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (469 p.) :; 24 halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Globalization Of European Consumption
  • 2. The King Intervenes
  • 3. The Making of a Smuggler
  • 4. The Shadow Economy
  • 5. Rebel Rebel
  • 6. Triumph
  • 7. The Would- Be General
  • 8. Captured
  • 9. The Execution of Louis Mandrin
  • 10. Mandrin into Print
  • 11. Smuggling in the Enlightenment
  • 12. Revolution
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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