The business of smuggling in the eighteenth century: Anglo-French comparisons
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- The business of smuggling in the eighteenth century: Anglo-French comparisons
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- A UCL History PhD thesis (2024) by Stephen Mallet analysing smuggling as a commercial business in Britain and France during the 18th century. The thesis examines smuggling supply chains, legal frameworks, organisation, financing, and risk management, with particular emphasis on the Isle of Man as a smuggling entrepôt until 1765. It adopts a comparative Anglo-French approach to understand smuggling economics and its impact on trade, revenue, and society.
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- 2024
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- English