Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States

Renate Bridenthal is Emerita Professor of History at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York.  She has co-edited and contributed to many publications including, Becoming Visible: Women in European History (1977, 1987,1998), When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (1984), The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (2005), Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (2005), and Seascapes: Littoral Cultures and Transoceanic Exchanges (2007).

“… [an] excellent collection of essays, The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and Statesis a captivating and informative read that demonstrates the possibilities inherent in a broad approach to any subject.” · Canadian Journal of History“The publication of this work is timely. Current news about international criminal networks and government
corruption raises questions about the historical dimensions of present-day concerns… More than chronicling such movement, however, one of this volume’s strengths lies in its efforts to cross conceptual boundaries… The contributors, representing such disciplines as history, political science, and criminology, further push boundaries between economics and politics, structure and agency, public and private, as well as between historical facts and narrative discourses that construct expedient realities… address implications for sovereignty, democracy, the control of violence, and economic inequalities." · American Historical Review

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Crime and Power in HistoryRenate BridenthalChapter 1. Dirty Politics or “Harmonie?”  Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and HamburgMary LindemannChapter 2. A Crisis of Charter and Right: Piracy and Colonial Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Rhode IslandDouglas R. Burgess, Jr.Chapter 3. The First War on Drugs: Tobacco Trafficking, Criminality, and the Fiscal State in Eighteenth-Century FranceMichael KwassChapter 4. Befitting Bedfellows:  Yakuza and the State in Modern JapanEiko Maruko SiniawerChapter 5. Mobilizing Convict Bodies: Indian Convict Workers in Southeast Asia in the Early Nineteenth CenturyAnand YangChapter 6. The Underside of Overseas Chinese Society in Southeast AsiaCarl A. TrockiChapter 7. A Historical Perspective on State Engagement in Informal Trade on the Uganda-Congolese BorderKristof TitecaChapter 8. The Narcobourgeoisie and State Making in Colombia: More Coercion, Less Democratic GovernanceNazih RichaniChapter 9. Russia’s Gangster Capitalism: Portent for Contemporary States?Patricia RawlinsonChapter 10. Economic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government: The Example of the MediterraneanBeatrice HibouContributor Notes