{"id":26644,"date":"2010-05-11T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=26644"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:34:35","slug":"illicit-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/11\/illicit-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture to examine role of illicit trade in American history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Andreas, a professor of political science and international studies and the director of the International Relations Program at Brown University, gives the talk <em>Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America <\/em>at 4:15 p.m. Monday, May 17, in\u00a0 Pettengill Hall, Room G21, 4 Andrews Road.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is sponsored by the social sciences division chair and the departments of economics, history and sociology.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The talk critically examines American political and economic development and its engagement with the world through the lens of illicit trade, from molasses smuggling in Colonial times to cross-border bootlegging during Prohibition to &#8220;cybersmuggling&#8221; in the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas will look at the little-studied role of illicit commerce in the country&#8217;s early economic development and industrialization, westward expansion and international influence, including the East Asian opium trade and opium wars.<\/p>\n<p>He will also examine how prohibitions and anti-smuggling campaigns have stimulated the growth of the federal government&#8217;s internal and external policing powers. The focus is on the clandestine movement of people (illicit slave trading, migrant smuggling, sex trafficking) and of goods (prohibited, stolen and untaxed commodities).<\/p>\n<p>Andreas has written, co-written or co-edited eight books. Prior to Brown, he was an academy scholar at Harvard University, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow on International Peace and Security. He holds a master&#8217;s degree and doctorate in government from Cornell University and a bachelor&#8217;s in political science from Swarthmore College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Andreas, a professor of political science and international studies and the director of the International Relations Program at Brown University, gives the talk <em>Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America<\/em> at 4:15 p.m. Monday, May 17, in Bates College&#8217;s Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road, Room G21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3117,165,10767],"class_list":["post-26644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-economics","tag-history","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93330,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26644\/revisions\/93330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}