Inside the illicit economy : reconstructing the smugglers' trade of sixteenth century Bristol / Evan Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Evan Thomas, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smuggling--Vermont--Bristol--History--16th century.

Smuggling.

Bristol (Vt.)--Commercial policy.

Bristol (Vt.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whilst the popular image of smugglers remains an essentially romantic one, this book makes clear that smuggling was a large-scale systematic business reliant upon the connivance of well-connected merchants. Taking the port of Bristol as a case study, it provides the most sophisticated historical study of the smugglers' trade, ever undertaken anywhere in the world. What distinguishes it from previous studies of smuggling is that it uses the business accounts of sixteenth-century merchants to reconstruct their illicit operations. It examines how and why the illicit trade developed, why the Crown

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Note on Transcriptions; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Economics of Smuggling; 3 Smuggling and the Customs Service; 4 The Geography of Smuggling in the Bristol Channel; 5 The Business of Smuggling; 6 The Smuggling Operations of John Smyth and the Tyndall Brothers; 7 Protecting the Illicit Trade; 8 Crown Policy and Interlopers; 9 Evasion and Avoidance: Wine and Cloth; 10 Smuggling and Economic Development; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-58875-7

1-317-11607-0

1-280-68996-X

9786613666901

1-4094-4020-6

9781315588759

OCLC:

793193159