Autore
Clemente, Alida

Titolo
Quando il reato non è "peccato". Il contrabbando nel Regno di Napoli tra conflitti diplomatici, pluralismo istituzionale e quotidianità degli scambi (XVIII secolo)
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 143 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 359 - Pagina finale: 394

In the Kingdom of Naples smuggling seems to be the general rule of mercantilepractices rather than a deviance of a few rule-breaking. As much on the maritimeborder as on the internal border, consisting of the set of institutions and operatorsin charge of tax collecting, sovereignty is weak and unable to translate its normativeproduction in a set of effective rules. The current representation is that of a customssystem which burdens the actors of trade. But a closer look at current practices oflanding and placing of goods through primary documents, seems to contradict thispicture, revealing a system based on a constant negotiation in order to conciliateinterests, producing a factual corpus of habitual rules. The common representation,which seems to be the result of an idealized and «moral» conception of the marketversus perverted or oppressive institutions, ends up with producing a kind of apology ofsuch fraudulent practices as a necessary self-defence of Commerce by the intrusivenessof the institutions, so that the offense loses the connotation of «sin».



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