Shadow Economies in the Globalising World

Anna Knutsson, "Shadow Economies in the Globalising World "
English | ISBN: 1032127406 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 17 MB
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 the Scandinavian borderlands during the late eighteenth century. 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.