Inside the Illicit Economy: Reconstructing the Smugglers' Trade of Sixteenth Century Bristol
| By: | Jones, Evan T, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409440192 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409483250 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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From the moment governments began making money from levying duty on imported goods, a smuggling trade developed to avoid paying such taxes. Whilst the popular image of historic smuggling remains a romantic one, this book makes clear that the illicit trade could be a large-scale and systematic business that relied on the connivance of well-connected merchants.
Taking the port of Bristol as a case study, the book provides the most sophisticated historical study ever undertaken of the smugglers