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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: California series in public anthropology ; 16Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.Description: xxi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520250963 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.135 NOR
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Contents:
The war orphan -- The bombed-out shop -- Coconuts and cigarettes : some definitions -- The Gov'nor's red tractors -- Military takeovers (or, how to own a country) -- The untold story of the amputees -- Robber barons -- The border post--a billion-dollar truck stop (going international) -- Romancing the stone : borders and businesspeople -- The washing machine : laundering, part one -- Diamonds and fish : going global -- Ports -- Drugs -- The cultures of criminals -- The cultures of cops -- The world-port -- The investment machine : laundering, part two -- Human cargo -- Post-terror : creating (the illusion of) security -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.

The war orphan -- The bombed-out shop -- Coconuts and cigarettes : some definitions -- The Gov'nor's red tractors -- Military takeovers (or, how to own a country) -- The untold story of the amputees -- Robber barons -- The border post--a billion-dollar truck stop (going international) -- Romancing the stone : borders and businesspeople -- The washing machine : laundering, part one -- Diamonds and fish : going global -- Ports -- Drugs -- The cultures of criminals -- The cultures of cops -- The world-port -- The investment machine : laundering, part two -- Human cargo -- Post-terror : creating (the illusion of) security -- Conclusion.

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