Contraband Cargoes. Seven centuries of smuggling
Details:
- Author(s) Williams, Neville
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1959
- Pages 301pp; illus
- Publisher Longmans Green
- Place Published London
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- Name Taxation agencies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An early account. Chapters include: 'Rise of the smuggler, 1272-1558';'Conspiracy to defraud, 1558-1603'; 'A recognised profession, 1603-1713'; 'The heyday of illicit trade, 1713-75'; 'The net widens, 1775-1846'; 'Free trade and the new morality in Britain, 1846-1920'; 'International illicit trade in the nineteenth century'; 'Contraband in the modern world, 1920-58'