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English Smugglers, the Channel, and the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814
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Daly, G, English Smugglers, the Channel, and the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814, Journal of British Studies, 46, (1) pp. 30-46. ISSN 0021-9371 (2007) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1086/508397
Abstract
During the NapoleonicWars the Channel between England and France remained a major site for smuggling. Both the British and French governments faced this problem. From the French perspective, banned English textiles flooded continental markets; from the British perspective, smugglers evaded duties on continental goods landed on local shores and illegally shipped people and goods out of Britain to France and the Netherlands. While the smuggling of English textiles into Napoleonic-controlled Europe has become part of the history of the Continental Blockade, very little has been written on the contraband flows into and out of Britain and on the English smugglers who were the principal agents in a trans-Channel smuggling community.1 This article aims to address this neglect, throwing new light on the nature of the Channel and its coastal communities and offering further insights into the contested historical questions of identity, patriotism, and Anglo-French relations during the Napoleonic Wars. At the same time that the British state and its people were at war with Napoleonic France and its satellite states, English subjects along the Channel shore continued to trade illegally with the enemy, with the Channel proving a permeable border rather than an impenetrable defensive barrier. In general, English smuggling during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries remains an underdeveloped field of historical inquiry.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | British history |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
Objective Field: | Understanding past societies not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Daly, G (Dr Gavin Daly) |
ID Code: | 49668 |
Year Published: | 2007 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
Deposited By: | History and Classics |
Deposited On: | 2007-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2010-05-25 |
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