| Description |
1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Series |
Perspectives in Economic and Social History Ser |
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Perspectives in Economic and Social History Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Global Flows and Frictions -- The Swedish Situation -- Shape and Scope -- Sources -- Terminology and Currency -- 2 Trade in Conflict -- Eliciting the Smuggling Crime -- Economic Crisis and the Rise of Protectionism -- Anti-Smuggling Decrees -- Punishment and Amelioration -- The Triumph of Patriotic Protectionism -- 'Blood sucker' or Victim? The Smuggler in the Press -- Punishment in the Press -- Revoked Rights & New Rights |
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A Press for Privacy? -- Freedom in the Fold: The National Costume -- Freedom Infringed -- Freedom Withdrawn -- A New Right: Consumer Choice and Patriotic Consumption -- Swimming Against the Tide -- Free Choice for the Masses? -- 3 Porous Borders -- Defining Space, Drawing Borders -- Stockholm Archipelago -- The Captain's Burden -- The Crew's Ambition -- Boreal Borderlands -- Maritime Borders: Crags, Salting-Houses, and Sand -- The Free Port -- Land Borders: Mountains, Woods, and Snow -- Jämtland and Härjedalen -- Karelia and Ostrobothnia -- On the Road -- Smuggling within the Dominions |
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Regulating and Surveying the Countryside -- The Inn and the Tavern -- Controlling the Town -- Gothenburg -- Women and Children as Smugglers -- 4 Racketeering Retailers -- The Wandering Pedlar -- Westgothian Pedlars -- Russian Traders -- The Mercers -- Shop-Owners Under Surveillance -- A Case Study -- Johan Abraham Théel (1765-1811) -- The Crime -- Networks, Contacts, and Career -- High-Ranking Clients and Social Rise -- The Jewish Trader -- A New Nemesis -- Accusations of Smuggling from Outside of the Jewish Community -- Accusations of Smuggling from Inside the Jewish Community |
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Entanglements and Contrabands -- Increasing Restriction and Blame -- The Elite Smuggler -- The Case of Marcelin Robert (1753-1832) -- Robert the Contrabandier -- Conflict with the Burghers -- 5 Consuming Contraband: Worsteds & Coffee -- Norwich Worsteds: A Glimmering Sensation -- Concealed Cloth -- Governmental Toleration -- An Acceptable Luxury? -- The 1793 Parish Debates -- Coffee: A Clandestine Desire -- The Ban on Coffee -- Beans Below Board -- Governmental Despair -- Bubbling Brews and Grinding Radicals -- Coffee-Drinking Diarists -- Police Convictions -- The Club |
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6 Smuggling and the Perpetual Trade War -- The British Perspective -- Pursuing the Fickle Trade Balance -- The Inestimable Smuggling -- The Challenges of Tea Smuggling -- A British Consul in a Smuggling Hub -- Thomas Erskine -- The French Perspective -- A Patriotic Endeavour -- From Ignorance to Ambition -- Eaux-de-vie Smuggling to and through Sweden -- Jean Antoine and Casimir Fournier -- Competition in the North -- An 'entreprise patriotique' -- The Swedish Perspective -- Pragmatic Advancement -- British Antagonisers -- Pragmatism and Circulation of Contraband -- 7 Conclusion -- Globalisation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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State Formation |
| Subject |
Informal sector (Economics) -- Scandinavia -- History -- 18th century
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Informal sector (Economics)
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Scandinavia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000821819 |
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1000821811 |
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