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Global trade, smuggling, and the making of economic liberalism : Asian textiles in France 1680-1760
Imported from India, China, the Levant, and Persia and appreciated for their diversity, designs, fast bright colours and fine weave, Asian textiles became so popular in France that in 1686 the state banned their import, consumption and imitation.A fateful decision.
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Smuggling Silks into Eighteenth-Century Britain: Geography, Perpetrators, and Consumers
As part of protectionist policy in eighteenth-century Britain, imported silks were banned from being sold. Although it is known that bans on imported textiles were widely broken, there have been few systematic studies of the contraband trade in silks. Using customs' records, this article shows how smuggling supplied the demand for imported consumer goods. The illegal trade in silk was diverse, bringing in a variety of products from Asia and Europe. The evidence supports a market segmentation analysis of the different products and their consumers. The trade with Asia supplied “populuxe goods” in the form of handkerchiefs that appealed to a broad, middling customer base. These were brought into the country by the East India Company's trading network. By contrast, continental Europe provided contraband for the high-fashion market. These silks were distributed in more informal and personal ways—travelers and diplomats being the main offenders. The official response to these black markets differed, with silks from Europe posing particular problems for enforcement. Finally, this article provides a reassessment of the transnational influences—specifically the relative importance of Asia and Europe—on production and consumption of consumer goods in Britain.
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Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Global Textiles -- Prologue: Three French Women and Their Troublesome Textiles -- 1 Global Fabrics: The French Trade in Asian and Asian-Style Textiles -- Part II Smuggling -- 2 Smuggling Textiles into France -- 3 Smuggled Textiles Worn in France: The Politics of Privilege and the Violence of Fashion -- Part III The Making of Economic Liberalism -- 4 The State of Knowledge -- 5 Enlightenment Campaigning -- Conclusion -- Appendices
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Arms and Men: the Diplomacy of US Weapons Traffic with Saint-Domingue under Adams and Jefferson
This article examines Franco-American Quasi-War Saint-Domingue diplomacy, including the issue of US shipments of arms to Toussaint Louverture's rebellious colony (Haiti). Most experts assume that the United States furnished Haiti abundant munitions, but in 1797 Congress passed an arms embargo for the Quasi-War's duration. From June 1798 until August 1799, after President Adams reopened trade with Haiti, no trade with France or its colonies was permitted. In June 1799, US consul Edward Stevens, British General Maitland, and Louverture agreed to ban Haitian weapons purchases. Unaware that US trade with Haiti was illegal, scholars assume that US merchants and the Adams administration supplied blacks munitions. The only specific arms deal cited, involving Boston merchant Stephen Higginson and Secretary of State Pickering, was unconsummated. US shippers smuggled weapons to Haiti (1799-1801), against US laws and agreements, and probably relatively insignificantly. To conciliate Britain and protect slavery, the State Department risked war with Louverture. Only after President Jefferson, whom historians assume bitterly opposed Haiti, disavowed Anglo-American agreements did US merchants legally sell blacks armaments, doing so in substantial amounts, arousing French protests. The eagerness of Higginson, Stevens, and others to profit from illegal arms sales suggests they followed pecuniary incentives more than antislavery idealism in Haitian policy.
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The Channel: England, France, and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century. (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, no. 23.)
Andress reviews The Channel: England, France, and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century by Renaud Morieux.
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Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
Kaiser reviews Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground by Michael Kwass.
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Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
Garrigus reviews Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground by Michael Kwass.
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