A Thousand Thirsty Beaches

Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South During Prohibition

Lisa Lindquist Dorr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2018
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469643274 (ISBN)

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Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of the vast smuggling network that brought high-end distilled spirits and, eventually, other cargoes (including undocumented immigrants) from Great Britain and Europe through Cuba to the United States between 1920 and the end of Prohibition. Because of their proximity to liquor-exporting islands, the numerous beaches along the southern coast presented ideal landing points for smugglers and distribution points for their supply networks. From the warehouses of liquor wholesalers in Havana to the decks of rum runners to transportation networks heading northward, Dorr explores these operations, from the people who ran the trade to the determined efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard and other law enforcement agencies to stop liquor traffic on the high seas, in Cuba, and in southern communities. In the process, she shows the role smuggling played in creating a more transnational, enterprising, and modern South.

Lisa Lindquist Dorr is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and author of White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	16 halftones, 1 map
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	609 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781469643274 / 9781469643274
Zustand	Neuware