Shadow Economies in the Globalising World
Shadow Economies in the Globalising World From West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in…
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Shadow Economies in the Globalising World
From West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in Scandinavian borderlands during the late eighteenth-century. Through re-evaluating the role of smuggling the book complements and challenges established historical accounts about state building, market dynamics, consumer culture, and ideas and identity. This book explores how and why these goods came to be there and analyses what smuggling can reveal about the emergence of global trade, the formation of the nation state, and the development of consumer society in Europe's northernmost outskirts.This book shows that the global underground was ubiquitous in the Nordic countries and fundamentally altered them, politically, economically, socially, and culturally.
It also offers a roadmap for how to think about illegal global
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