10. Economic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government: The Example of the Mediterranean

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Dirty Politics or “Harmonie?” Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg 23
5. 2. A Crisis of Charter and Right: Piracy and Colonial Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Rhode Island 54
6. 3. The First War on Drugs: Tobacco Trafficking, Criminality, and the Fiscal State in Eighteenth-Century France 76
7. 4. Befitting Bedfellows: Yakuza and the State in Modern Japan 98
8. 5. Mobilizing Convict Bodies: Indian Convict Workers in Southeast Asia in the Early Nineteenth Century 123
9. 6. The Underside of Overseas Chinese Society in Southeast Asia 149
10. 7. A Historical Perspective on State Engagement in Informal Trade on the Uganda-Congo Border 171
11. 8. The Narcobourgeoisie and State Making in Colombia: More Coercion, Less Democratic Governance 196
12. 9. Russia’s Gangster Capitalism: Portent for Contemporary States? 216
13. 10. Economic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government: The Example of the Mediterranean 237
14. Notes on Contributors 263
15. Index 267