Inhalt: A nation of smugglers -- The Colonial Era. The golden age of illicit trade -- The smuggling road to revolution -- The smuggling war of independence. -- The Early Republic. Contraband and embargo busting in the new nation -- Traitorous traders and patriotic pirates -- The illicit industrial revolution. -- Westward Expansion, Slavery, and the Civil War. Bootleggers and fur traders in Indian country -- Illicit slavers and the perpetuation of the slave trade -- Blood cotton and blockade-runners. -- The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Tariff evaders and enforcers -- Sex, smugglers, and purity crusaders -- Coming to America through the back door -- Rumrunners and prohibitionists. -- Into the Modern Age. America's century-long drug war -- Border wars and the underside of economic integration -- America and illicit globalization in the twenty-first century
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