Inside the Illicit Economy. Reconstructing the smugglers' trade of sixteenth century Bristol
Details:
- Author(s) Jones, Evan T
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2012
- Pages 249pp; illus
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Farnham
Topics:
- Name Taxation inc customs, excise, stamp duties, etc: imposition & impact
- Name Taxation agencies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly analytical account of smuggling at Bristol notably explored through the accounts of private merchants. Has chapters: 'Economics of smuggling'; 'Smuggling and the Customs Service'; 'Geography of smuggling in Bristol Channel'; 'The business of smuggling'; 'The smuggling operations of John Smyth and the Tyndall Brothers'; 'Protecting the illicit trade'; 'Crown policy and interlopers'; 'Evasion and avoidance - wine and cloth'; 'Smuggling and economic development'. Includes much about wine, woollen cloth, leather trading. See the writer's 'Illicit business. Accounting for smuggling in mid sixteenth century Bristol', Economic History Review, 54, 2001