Shadow Economies in the Globalising World: Smuggling in Scandinavia, 1766-1806

ISBN-13: 9781032127439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Anna Knutsson

Opis

This book explores how and why various global wares ended up in Scandinavian borderlands during the eighteenth-century, 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Trade in Conflict  3. Porous Borders  4. Racketeering Retailers  5. Consuming Contraband: Worsteds & Coffee  6. Smuggling and the Perpetual War  7. Conclusion

O autorze

Anna Knutsson graduated with a PhD in history at the European University Institute in 2019 after writing a thesis about smuggling in Sweden during the eighteenth century. Since then, she has taken up an international postdoctoral fellowship at Uppsala University, Cambridge University, and NTNU and is currently researching illegal trade and its impact on northern European peripheries.