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America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Providing a sweeping narrative history from colonial times to the present, Smuggler Nation is the first book to retell the story of America-and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world-as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine commerce. As Peter Andreas demonstrates in this provocative and fascinating account, smuggling has played a pivotal and too often overlooked role in America's birth, westward expansion, and economic development, while anti-smuggling campaigns have dramatically enhanced the federal government's policing powers. The great irony, Andreas tells us, is that a country that was born and grew up through smuggling is today the world's leading anti-smuggling crusader.
In tracing America's long and often tortuous relationship with the murky underworld of smuggling, Andreas provides a much-needed antidote to today's hyperbolic depictions of out of control borders and growing global crime threats. Urgent calls by politicians and pundits to regain control of the nation's borders suffer from a severe case of historical amnesia, nostalgically implying that they were ever actually under control. This is pure mythology, says Andreas. For better and for worse, America's borders have always been highly porous. Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As Andreas shows, it goes back not just years but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting but also empowering America.
Contents
Preface ; Introduction: A Nation of Smugglers ; PART I. The Colonial Era ; 1. The Golden Age of Illicit Trade ; 2. The Smuggling Road to Revolution ; 3. The Smuggling War of Independence ; PART II. The Early Republic ; 4. Contraband and Embargo Busting in the New Nation ; 5. Traitorous Traders and Patriot Pirates ; 6. The Illicit Industrial Revolution ; PART III. Westward Expansion, Slavery, and the Civil War ; 7. Bootleggers and Fur Traders in Indian Country ; 8. Illicit Slavers and the Perpetuation of the Slave Trade ; 9. Blood Cotton and Blockade-Runners ; PART IV. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era ; 10. Tariff Evaders and Enforcers ; 11. Sex, Smugglers, and Purity Crusaders ; 12. Coming to America Through the Backdoor ; 13. Rumrunners and Prohibitionists ; PART V. Into the Modern Age ; 14. America's Century-long Drug War ; 15. Border Wars and the Underside of Economic Integration ; 16. America and Illicit Globalization in the 21st Century ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Index
