Contraband

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Contraband is written by Michael Kwass and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674726839 (ISBN 10) and 9780674726833 (ISBN 13).

Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood, exposing the dark side of early modern globalization. Decades later, the memory of Mandrin inspired ordinary subjects and Enlightened philosophers alike to challenge royal power.