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The Smugglers' World : Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela / Jesse Cromwell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cromwell, Jesse, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smuggling--Political aspects.
- Smuggling.
- Smuggling--Social aspects.
- Smuggling--Venezuela--Atlantic Coast--History--18th century.
- Spain--Commercial policy--18th century.
- Spain.
- Spain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.
- Venezuela--Commerce--History--18th century.
- Venezuela.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods. They found a solution in exchanging cacao, a coveted luxury, for the necessities of life provided by contrabandists from the Dutch, English, and French Caribbean"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Old habits : commercial neglect and peripheral innovation in early Venezuela
- Socialized into smuggling : the consumer culture of the black market
- New cures : the Caracas Company, the crown, and commercial control
- Networking statelessness in a bordered world : foreign smugglers
- The societal ties of smuggling : Venezuelan merchants
- "Men of good who will harm no one" : Venezuelan officials
- Contrabandists or cargo? : People of color, smuggling, and the illicit slave trade
- The political power of covert commerce : the rebellion of Juan Francisco de León, 1749-1751.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908561-8-0
- 1-4696-3694-8
- 1-4696-3691-3
- OCLC:
- 1062360725
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