The smugglers' world : illicit trade and Atlantic communities in eighteenth-century Venezuela /
The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuela...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill : Williamsburg, Virginia :
University of North Carolina Press ; Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
[2018]
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| Summary: | The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods. They found a solution in exchanging cacao, a coveted luxury, for the necessities of life provided by contrabandists from the Dutch, English and French Caribbean. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469636887 1469636883 |