Contraband Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground

Name: Contraband Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
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ISBN: 9780674726833

ISBN-10: 0674726839

ISBN-13: 9780674726833

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michael Kwass

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Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that transformed the French kingdom. Contraband exposes the dark side of this early phase of globalization, revealing hidden connections between illicit commerce, criminality, and popular revolt.France's economic system was tailor-made for an enterprising outlaw like Mandrin. As French subjects began to crave colonial products, Louis XIV lined the royal coffers by imposing a…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 472
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 1.892

Michael Kwass is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.