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Author Nordstrom, Carolyn, 1953-

Title Global outlaws : crime, money, and power in the contemporary world / Carolyn Nordstrom.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HV6252 .N67 2007    Available  ---
Description xxi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series California series in public anthropology ; 16
California series in public anthropology ; 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.
Contents War orphan -- Bombed-out shop -- Coconuts and cigarettes : some definitions -- Gov'nor's red tractors -- Military takeovers (or, how to own a country) -- Untold story of the amputees -- Robber barons -- Border post--a billion-dollar truck stop (going international) -- Romancing the stone : borders and businesspeople -- Washing machine : laundering, part one -- Diamonds and fish : going global -- Ports -- Drugs -- Cultures of criminals -- Cultures of cops -- World-port -- Investment machine : laundering, part two -- Human cargo -- Post-terror : creating (the illusion of) security -- Conclusion.
Subject Transnational crime.
Transnational crime.
Organized crime.
Organized crime.
Smuggling.
Smuggling.
International economic relations.
International economic relations.
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