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OverviewMaritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before the emergence of the nation-state, maritime societies were shaped equally by both sanctioned and illicit trade—and that the line between the two was much less defined than it is now. The kind of high-seas activity now called piracy was often viewed in the early modern period as, at worst, a disruption of established distribution channels, but just often, it was viewed as simply another legitimate economic stream. Depending on one’s perspective, the same person could be seen as a bandit or an entrepreneur. Merchants, Pirates, and Smugglers tells the story of how these individuals came to be labelled as criminals as a way to enforce the codified economic and political positions that arose from sustained European state-building between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Heeb¿ll-Holm , Philipp Hohn , Gregor RohmannPublisher: Campus Verlag Imprint: Campus Verlag Dimensions: Width: 1.40cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.20cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9783593509792ISBN 10: 3593509792 Pages: 431 Publication Date: 21 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationThomas Heebøll-Holm is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Philipp Höhn is a research fellow at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Gregor Rohmann is associate professor at the Historisches Seminar at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |