Smuggler nation: how illicit trade made America

A nation of smugglers

The Colonial Era. The golden age of illicit trade

The smuggling road to revolution

The smuggling war of independence.

The Early Republic. Contraband and embargo busting in the new nation

Traitorous traders and patriotic pirates

The illicit industrial revolution.

Westward Expansion, Slavery, and the Civil War. Bootleggers and fur traders in Indian country

Illicit slavers and the perpetuation of the slave trade

Blood cotton and blockade-runners.

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Tariff evaders and enforcers

Sex, smugglers, and purity crusaders

Coming to America through the back door

Rumrunners and prohibitionists.

Into the Modern Age. America's century-long drug war

Border wars and the underside of economic integration

America and illicit globalization in the twenty-first century.

A nation of smugglers

The Colonial Era. The golden age of illicit trade

The smuggling road to revolution

The smuggling war of independence.

The Early Republic. Contraband and embargo busting in the new nation

Traitorous traders and patriotic pirates

The illicit industrial revolution.

Westward Expansion, Slavery, and the Civil War. Bootleggers and fur traders in Indian country

Illicit slavers and the perpetuation of the slave trade

Blood cotton and blockade-runners.

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Tariff evaders and enforcers

Sex, smugglers, and purity crusaders

Coming to America through the back door

Rumrunners and prohibitionists.

Into the Modern Age. America's century-long drug war

Border wars and the underside of economic integration

America and illicit globalization in the twenty-first century.