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

by Nordstrom, Carolyn, 1953-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Transnational crime.

Organized crime.

International economic relations.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017929.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006017929-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2006017929-b.html

9780520250956 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780520250963 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0520250958 (hbk.)

0520250966 (pbk.)

California series in public anthropology ; 16

xxi, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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