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Contraband reveals the untold story of Louis Mandrin, an eighteenth-century French smuggler who led a notorious gang of bandits defying the crown's economic stranglehold. Michael Kwass brings scholarly rigour and narrative verve to this Gallic Robin Hood legend, tracing how illicit commerce transformed the French kingdom during an era of explosive world trade and consumption revolution. Decades before the Bastille fell, Mandrin's thriving underworld exposed the dark underbelly of early globalization, exposing the hidden connections between contraband networks, criminality, and popular revolt that destabilised France's rigid economic system. This historical biography uncovers how a tailor-made mercantilist economy created the perfect conditions for an enterprising outlaw to challenge state authority, making Mandrin's life a window into the economic and social tensions that would soon reshape Europe.

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Louis Mandrin's biography traces an eighteenth-century French smuggler who led organised gangs of bandits moving contraband across the kingdom.

Michael Kwass examines illicit commerce networks and their connections to criminality and popular revolt in pre-revolutionary France.

Contraband explores how surging world trade and consumption revolution transformed the French kingdom before the Bastille.

Harvard University Press publication offering scholarly historical analysis of economic systems and outlaw economies in 1700s France.

The book reveals hidden links between global underground trade, state economic policy, and the social upheaval preceding the French Revolution.

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25 April 2014
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24 October 2013

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