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Synopsis
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.
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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.
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Dorr reveals aspects of Prohibition enforcement that have not been explored before. The book is richly and deeply researched.--Lisa McGirr, Harvard University
Dorr's book is unique, surprising, well written, and thoroughly researched. It broadens the history of southern alcohol use into the Caribbean, details the complications and frustrations of enforcement, and builds a broad narrative.--Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
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- PublisherUniv of North Carolina Pr
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1469643278
- ISBN 13 9781469643274
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages299
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