Retells the story of America--and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world--as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine com
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British indus
Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This stu
In the twentieth century the Netherlands grew into a major country of trade and production for illegal drugs, supplying the UK and other European countries as w
How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world. In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was