Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820

Author:   Joshua M. Smith ,  Gene A. Smith ,  Gene A. Smith ,  James C. Bradford
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
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9780813029863


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   29 August 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Joshua M. Smith ,  Gene A. Smith ,  Gene A. Smith ,  James C. Bradford
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780813029863


ISBN 10:   0813029864
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   29 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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"""A rich chronological catalogue of smuggling at the turn of the nineteenth century and a provocative argument: smugglers, and not nation-states, were the ones who defined the real limits of early American regional borders.""--H-Net ""A significant contribution to the social construction of identity along the Canadian-American borderland.""--American Historical Review ""Smith analyzes the intense and contentious period of smuggling from the end of the American Revolution through the War of 1812. . . . Highly readable.""--Canadian Historical Review ""A key implication of the book is that smuggling was extensive and lucrative.""--Journal of American History ""No study has made a more useful contribution to our understanding of the realities of seaborne commerce across the Maine-New Brunswick frontier than Smith's splendid book.""--International Journal of Maritime History ""This finely researched book provides a glance into a lost culture, and its careful analysis will provide a glimmer of understanding of some of the variables still extant in today's illicit trade.""--Nautical Research Journal ""Borderland Smuggling should be read by anyone interested in the regulation of trade, borders, and American national identity.""--Business History Review ""Point[s] our attention to the concrete, transnational connections and conflicts that framed economy, polity, and society in the early republic.""--Journal of the Early Republic ""Important both to regional studies as well as to the history of relations between the United States and Great Britain in these turbulent years.""--Military History ""Smith's carefully crafted, accessible account of smuggling in the Passamaquoddy region makes an important, scholarly contribution to our historical understanding of transborder trade and communications and reveals the usefulness of, and provides a model for, transborder scholarship.""--New England Quarterly ""An interesting and informative account of how material self-interest and local loyalties trumped broader allegiances in the northeastern borderland of the early nineteenth century.""--Common-place"


Full of revealing episodes vividly told, Joshua Smith's book will contribute to the emerging attention to the Canadian-American borderland, an attention that challenges the narrow, nationalist historical traditions which ignore the important and continuous exchange of people and goods that transgressed the boundary. -- Alan Taylor


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Joshua M. Smith is assistant professor of humanities at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. He is a contributor to The Early Republic and the Sea: Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of the Early United States.

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