The Smugglers' World - Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela - Jesse Cromwell

The Smugglers' World - Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela - Bog af Jesse Cromwell - Hardback

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. Jesse Cromwell paints a vivid picture of the lives of littoral peoples who normalized their subversions of imperial law.