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Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 696–698.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2351807
Published: 01 November 2013
...Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World . By Rupert Linda M. . Early American Places. Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 347 pp. Paper , $24.95...
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Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands

Andrew R. Graybill
Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 165–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2390087
Published: 01 February 2014
...Andrew R. Graybill Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands . Edited by Carey Elaine and Marak Andrae M. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2011 . Photographs. Tables. Notes. Index. x, 250 pp. Cloth...
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Contraband Trade: a Factor in the Decline of Spain’s Empire in America

Vera Lee Bbown
Hispanic American Historical Review (1928) 8 (2): 178–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8.2.178
Published: 01 May 1928
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Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande

Alberto Rodriguez
Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 599–600.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3601586
Published: 01 August 2016
...Alberto Rodriguez Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande . By Díaz George T. . Inter-America Series . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 241 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright ©...
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A New Interpretation of Contraband Trade

Ernst Pijning
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 733–738.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-3-4-733
Published: 01 August 2001
..., especially through the analysis of local reports. 3 My research not only showed “how much” illegal trade took place but also “how” contrabandists traded. Thus, in my opinion, the debate should focus more on the nature of authority over commercial transactions, not on the quantity of contraband goods...
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Contraband, Crisis, and the Collapse of the Old Colonial System

Jorge M. Pedreira
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 739–744.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-3-4-739
Published: 01 August 2001
... to a subsidiary point that I tried to avoid in the essay that prompted Pijning’s response. Contrary to his assumption, “the extent of illegal trade in the decade prior to 1808” is not crucial to my argument; in fact, contraband is an ancillary topic in my analysis of the breakdown of the old colonial system...
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Commerce and Contraband in New Orleans during the French and Indian War. A Documentary Study of the Texel and Three Brothers Affairs

Robert L. Gold
Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 605.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-49.3.605
Published: 01 August 1969
...Robert L. Gold Commerce and Contraband in New Orleans during the French and Indian War. A Documentary Study of the Texel and Three Brothers Affairs . By Nasatir Abraham F. and Mills James R. . Cincinnati , 1968 . American Jewish Archives . Monographs of the American J ewish...
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The Contraband Slave Trade to Brazil, 1831-1845

Robert Conrad
Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 617–638.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-49.4.617
Published: 01 November 1969
... is the contraband slave trade to Brazil from 1831 to 1852. By this means hundreds of thousands of Africans were transported to South America and, though legally “free,” were compelled to spend their lives in slavery, passing this condition on to their children and grandchildren. This paper gives an account...
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Contraband Trade between Jamaica and the Spanish Main, and the Free Port Act of 1766

Allan Christelow
Hispanic American Historical Review (1942) 22 (2): 309–343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-22.2.309
Published: 01 May 1942
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Indigenous Raiding, Captive Taking, and the Politics of Maritime Violence in the Long Sixteenth-Century Lesser Antilles

Ernesto Mercado-Montero
Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 1–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11543343
Published: 01 February 2025
..., and maintain control over their territories. Likewise, the strategic position of the Lesser Antilles facilitated Indigenous people's integration in the northern European system that blended exploration, sea marauding, and contraband in the Caribbean. By focusing on Indigenous people, we are able to access...
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Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s

Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 3–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7993067
Published: 01 February 2020
... is well known to historians of piracy, its implications for women's history and African diaspora studies have not been properly contextualized in a period of expanding Atlantic slavery. This article proposes a close reading of contraband cases, parochial registers, slave codes, and eyewitness accounts...
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The Smugglers' World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela

Ramón Aizpurua
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 349–351.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8178435
Published: 01 May 2020
.... Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 313 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In this book Jesse Cromwell dedicates great effort to understanding and diagnosing the society that gave rise to the contraband so characteristic of eighteenth-century colonial Venezuela...
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Curazao y la costa de Caracas: introducción al estudio del contrabando de la provincia de Venezuela en tiempos de la Compañía Guipuzcoana, 1730-1780

John V. Lombardi
Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 786–787.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.4.786
Published: 01 November 1996
... . 417 pp. Paper . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The late colonial history of Venezuela revolves around the cultivation, commerce, and contraband of cacao. Loved by all in its various forms of chocolate, the cacao from the coastal regions around Caracas provided the substance...
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The Political Economy of Smuggling: Regional Informal Economies in Early Bourbon New Granada

Wim Klooster
Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 337–338.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-78.2.337
Published: 01 May 1998
.... Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 For all the passing mentions of its importance in colonial historiography, contraband trade has been remarkably little studied. In recent years, however, several historians have started to fill this void. The latest book discussing...
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From Growth to Collapse: Portugal, Brazil, and the Breakdown of the Old Colonial System (1760-1830)

Jorge M. Pedreira
Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (4): 839–864.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-80-4-839
Published: 01 November 2000
... that Novais submits in favor of this assumption is the possible increase of illegal trafficking in Brazil. But even this is offered as a conjecture, and he actually writes, “it is not too daring to suppose an extension of contraband in Brazilian shores.” 28 Based on this suggestion and endorsing...
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The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Oscar de la Torre
Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 333–334.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8897776
Published: 01 May 2021
... that preyed on their North American and Caribbean colonies. But this rivalry in reality concealed fundamental interimperial ties, according to Schneider. For decades, commerce, contraband, and the slave trade bound together Havana and the British Caribbean with ever-growing intensity. During the first...
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Reform and Insurrection in Bourbon New Granada and Peru

Jorge I. Domínguez
Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 126–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-72.1.126
Published: 01 February 1992
... was remarkably modest. And Sandra Montgomery Keelan records that the impact of mining reforms introduced in New Granada some years later was negligible. Jacques Barbier discovers that commercial reforms under Charles IV failed to expand New Granada’s legal trade because contraband continued to flourish...
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Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702 – 1710

John S. Leiby
Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 548–549.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2010-020
Published: 01 August 2010
... the Duke of Albuquerque and the Sánchez de Tagle family. What this story reveals is that Albuquerque was an opportunist seeking to enrich himself (primarily through the contraband trade), which resulted in his supporting one group of elites over the other. He expected their loyalty, and they in turn...
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Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700-1739

D. R. Murray
Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (4): 683–684.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-62.4.683
Published: 01 November 1982
... records also verifies that its slave-trade operations turned a handsome profit, at least on paper. As Palmer notes, the company “never complained that the slave trade was a financial burden too heavy to bear” (p. 155). Palmer delineates the paradox of contraband trade during the asiento years...
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Pombal and the Nationalization of the Luso-Brazilian Economy

Kenneth R. Maxwell
Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 608–631.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-48.4.608
Published: 01 November 1968
..., freight charges, and warehousing. 26 A high proportion of the British manufactured goods exported to Brazil via Portugal went ultimately into the Spanish colonies as contraband. The result was important, for the functioning of the system at the height of its prosperity brought silver to Britain...
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