Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
This study traces the career of famed smuggler Louis Mandrin and shows how his activities reflected wider struggles over trade, taxation, and state power in eighteenth-century Europe.
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Contraband examines the life of Louis Mandrin and the broader context of illicit trade in early modern Europe.
The book explores how smuggling operations challenged state authority and contributed to the development of global underground economies.
Using archival sources, it situates Mandrin within larger patterns of commerce, taxation, and resistance.
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