Pirate empire
Colonial history shows us how smuggling serves imperial designs. Islanders and Empire, Juan José Ponce Vázquez, by Gavin O'Toole
Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690, Juan José Ponce Vázquez, 2020, Cambridge University Press
As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, technocratic bean counters everywhere are focused on one thing—tariffs, and their impact on global trade and national economies.
Theirs is an understandable concern—pu…