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Author Smith, Joshua M

Title Borderland smuggling : patriots, loyalists, and illicit trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 / Joshua M. Smith ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 160 pages)
Series New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
Contents "The Habit of Smuggling" -- "A Sort of Neutrality" -- "A Commerce of Mere Stone" -- "The Rascals of Passamaquoddy" -- "The Pursuit of Ignominious Gain" -- "Ulmer Was a Rascal" -- "Actual and Unqualified Rebellion" -- Conclusion: The Memory of Smuggling
Summary Smith treats the Passamaquoddy Bay smuggling as more than a local episode of antiquarian interest. Indeed, he crafts a local case study to illuminate a widespread phenomenon in early modern Europe and the Americas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-156) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Smuggling -- Northeast boundary of the United States -- History -- 18th century
Smuggling -- Northeast boundary of the United States -- History -- 19th century
TRUE CRIME -- General.
Smuggling
Schmuggel
Grenze
United States -- Northeast boundary of the United States
USA -- Nordoststaaten
Kanada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813037066
0813037069