Inside the illicit economy : reconstructing the smugglers' trade of sixteenth century Bristol / Evan T. Jones.
Whilst the popular image of smugglers remains an essentially romantic one, this book makes clear that smuggling was a large-scale systematic business reliant upon the connivance of well-connected merchants. Taking the port of Bristol as a case study, it provides the most sophisticated historical stu...
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Note on Transcriptions; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Economics of Smuggling; 3 Smuggling and the Customs Service; 4 The Geography of Smuggling in the Bristol Channel; 5 The Business of Smuggling; 6 The Smuggling Operations of John Smyth and the Tyndall Brothers; 7 Protecting the Illicit Trade; 8 Crown Policy and Interlopers; 9 Evasion and Avoidance: Wine and Cloth; 10 Smuggling and Economic Development; Bibliography; Index.