Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915

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Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915. By Eric Tagliacozzo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xiv + 437 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-300-08968-6.

By its very nature, smuggling as a form of economic activity is difficult to document, if only because available information is generally focused upon smuggling enterprises that failed. Eric Tagliacozzo's ambitious new study seeks ...

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