Smuggler nation
by Andreas, Peter, Peter Andreas · first published 2013
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America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Contraband, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism. Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As the author shows, it goes back not just ye
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This article seems like an excerpt/promo for the author's new book, which seems to be an interesting read, http://www.amazon.com/Smuggler-Nation-Illicit-Trade-America/... and has garnered a few favourable reviews so far. P.S: Is there a way to provide inline URL linking in HN threads that I am not aware of?
on “Piracy and Fraud Propelled the US Industrial Revolution” ↗…highly productive New England fisheries would suffer from low fish prices due to chronic oversupply. A failing New England fishery would mean added unemployment in an already depressed economy." See also "Smuggler Nation" by Peter Andreas. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13689883-smuggler-nation
on “Samuel Adams helped ferment a revolution” ↗…investors. I really can't think of any instance in industrial history where a leading power just gave away their core technology. America had to steal textile technology from Britain (see the great book 'Smuggler Nation' (2013, Peter Andreas) [1] on that); Britain and France had to steal chemical technology from Germany (after WWI, that was a significant cause of tension as the British and French raided German manufacturing…
on “Court decision barring Chinese student sends message about espionage risk” ↗…global economy over time, and although dense, are well worth the effort. She has a new book out as of Oct, "Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever." Peter Anderas, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America A very fun historical read, covering everything from textile machinery smuggling from Britain to the American colonies, to rum and whiskey smuggling into Indian Country…
on “Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?” ↗…role in fentanyl production and now this revelation about the other end of the trade, could it be they view this as some kind of long-term payback for things that took place some 200 years ago? Source: Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America by Peter Andreas (2013) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13689883-smuggler-nation > "Smuggling was also common practice for U.S. merchant ships penetrating the Chinese…
on “A Chinese American gangster transformed money laundering for drug cartels” ↗Nope. People usually just do something like this [1] for multiple urls [2]. [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Smuggler-Nation-Illicit-Trade-America/... [2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/
on “Piracy and Fraud Propelled the US Industrial Revolution” ↗Well, I did, and to save others the time, the most relevant resource I found appears to be the book "Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America” (2013) by Peter Andreas
on “DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model” ↗