Global Outlaws Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World

Name: Global Outlaws Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
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ISBN: 9780520250963

ISBN-10: 0520250966

ISBN-13: 9780520250963

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carolyn Nordstrom

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Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of illegal trade around the world--from blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like food and oil.Global Outlawspeels away the layers of a vast economy that extends from a war orphan in Angola selling Marlboros on the street to powerful transnational networks reaching across continents and oceans. Nordstrom's extraordinary fieldwork includes interviews with scores of…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


National



The War Orphan



The Bombed-Out Shop



Coconuts and Cigarettes: Some Definitions



The Gov'nor's Red Tractors



Military Takeovers (Or, How to Own a Country)



The Untold Story of the Amputees



Robber Barons


International



The Border Post - a Billion-Dollar Truck Stop (Going International)



Romancing the Stone: Borders and Businesspeople



The Washing Machine: Laundering, Part One


Global



Diamonds and Fish: Going Global



Ports



Drugs



The Cultures of Criminals



The Cultures of Cops



The World-Port



The Investment Machine: Laundering, Part Two



Human Cargo


Home



Post-Terror: Creating (the Illusion of) Security



Conclusion


Notes


References


Index