{"product_id":"the-hidden-history-of-crime-corruption-and-states-9781785335181","title":"The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tRenowned historical sociologist Charles Tilly wrote many years ago that “banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, and war-making all belong on the same continuum.” This volume pursues the idea by revealing how lawbreakers and lawmakers have related to one another on the shadowy terrains of power over wide stretches of time and space. Illicit activities and forces have been more important in state building and state maintenance than conventional histories have acknowledged. Covering vast chronological and global terrain, this book traces the contested and often overlapping boundaries between these practices in such very different polities as the pre-modern city-states of Europe, the modern nation-states of France and Japan, the imperial power of Britain in India and North America, Africa’s and Southeast Asia’s postcolonial states, and the emerging postmodern regional entity of the Mediterranean Sea. Indeed, the contemporary explosion of transnational crime raises the question of whether or not the relationship of illicit to licit practices may be mutating once more, leading to new political forms beyond the nation-state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“… [an] excellent collection of essays,\u003c\/em\u003e The Hidden History of Crime\u003cem\u003e, Corruption, and Statesis a captivating and informative read that demonstrates the possibilities inherent in a broad approach to any subject.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Canadian Journal of History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The publication of this work is timely. Current news about international criminal networks and government\u2028corruption raises questions about the historical dimensions of present-day concerns… More than chronicling such movement, however, one of this volume’s strengths lies in its efforts to cross conceptual boundaries… The contributors, representing such disciplines as history, political science, and criminology, further push boundaries between economics and politics, structure and agency, public and private, as well as between historical facts and narrative discourses that construct expedient realities… address implications for sovereignty, democracy, the control of violence, and economic inequalities.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· American Historical Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Crime and Power in History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRenate Bridenthal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eDirty Politics or “Harmonie?”  Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMary Lindemann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Crisis of Charter and Right: Piracy and Colonial Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Rhode Island\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDouglas R. Burgess, Jr.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe First War on Drugs: Tobacco Trafficking, Criminality, and the Fiscal State in Eighteenth-Century France\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Kwass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eBefitting Bedfellows:  Yakuza and the State in Modern Japan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEiko Maruko Siniawer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eMobilizing Convict Bodies: Indian Convict Workers in Southeast Asia in the Early Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnand Yang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Underside of Overseas Chinese Society in Southeast Asia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCarl A. Trocki\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Historical Perspective on State Engagement in Informal Trade on the Uganda-Congolese Border\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKristof Titeca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Narcobourgeoisie and State Making in Colombia: More Coercion, Less Democratic Governance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNazih Richani\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eRussia’s Gangster Capitalism: Portent for Contemporary States?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePatricia Rawlinson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eEconomic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government: The Example of the Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBeatrice Hibou\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tContributor Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042396209495,"sku":"9781785335181","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785335181.jpg?v=1750954028","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-hidden-history-of-crime-corruption-and-states-9781785335181","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}