Maritime smuggling networks through insular contexts: Geo-spatial hinterlands of Isle of Man and Channel Islands illicit trade, c. 1680-1832

Wim Klooster（2009）在他对1600-1800年殖民地间非法贸易的研究中，格言式地观察到“走私需要两个人”。克劳斯特的声明引发了一些问题：谁在走私;这种活动在哪里发生;走私货物的分布范围有多广。我的项目将集中在一个特定的海洋，沿岸的和腹地的地理和发展创新的方法来回答这些问题。作为一种固有的时空现象，走私是一个很有前途的领域，可以应用地理信息系统，通过确定购买、运输或出售货物的事件以及对参与非法贸易的个人之间的联系进行网络分析，来绘制走私网络的位置。本研究将参与历史的“空间转向”，利用地理资讯系统将底层活动纳入深入研究。据当时的人观察，在整个漫长的18世纪，走私货物在不列颠群岛异常普遍。因此，重新评价通过不列颠群岛沿岸的非法贸易的机制，并质疑走私货物从位于岛屿的节点扩散到国内市场的程度，是有明确理由的。

In his study of inter-colonial illicit trade from 1600-1800, Wim Klooster (2009) aphoristically observed 'it takes two to smuggle'. Klooster's statement precipitates questions: who was smuggling; where this activity was taking place; and how extensive was the distribution of smuggled goods. My project will concentrate on a specific maritime, littoral and hinterland geography and develop an innovative methodology to answer these questions. As an inherently spatial-temporal phenomena smuggling is a promising area for applying GIS to map the locations of smuggling networks through identifying incidences of goods being acquired, shipped, or sold as well as network analysis of the connectivity between individuals involved in illicit trade. This study will participate in history's 'spatialturn', using GIS to bring subaltern activity into close study. Smuggled goods were observed by contemporaries to be extraordinarily prevalent in the British Isles throughout the long eighteenth century. There is, therefore, a clear rationale in re-evaluating the mechanism of illicit trade through the British Isles littoral and questioning how extensive the diffusion of smuggled goods from insular-located nodes were in domestic markets.