The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States / / ed. by Renate Bridenthal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bridenthal, Renate,; Burgess, Douglas R.,; Hibou, Béatrice,; Kwass, Michael,; Lindemann, Mary,; Rawlinson, Patricia,; Richani, Nazih,; Siniawer, Eiko Maruko,; Titeca, Kristof,; Trocki, Carl A.,; Yang, Anand,
• HerausgeberIn: Bridenthal, Renate,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)

Renowned historical sociologist Charles Tilly wrote many years ago that “banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, and war-making all belong on the same continuum.” This volume pursues the idea by revealing how lawbreakers and lawmakers have related to one another on the shadowy terrains of powe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Dirty Politics or “Harmonie?” Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg
• 2. A Crisis of Charter and Right: Piracy and Colonial Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Rhode Island
• 3. The First War on Drugs: Tobacco Trafficking, Criminality, and the Fiscal State in Eighteenth-Century France
• 4. Befitting Bedfellows: Yakuza and the State in Modern Japan
• 5. Mobilizing Convict Bodies: Indian Convict Workers in Southeast Asia in the Early Nineteenth Century
• 6. The Underside of Overseas Chinese Society in Southeast Asia
• 7. A Historical Perspective on State Engagement in Informal Trade on the Uganda-Congo Border
• 8. The Narcobourgeoisie and State Making in Colombia: More Coercion, Less Democratic Governance
• 9. Russia’s Gangster Capitalism: Portent for Contemporary States?
• 10. Economic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government: The Example of the Mediterranean
• Notes on Contributors
• Index