Useful regional corrective and a case study in how illegality is produced through the interaction of tax law, enforcement capacity, local economies, and political identity.
The authors map still sites and summarize raids, resistance, and enforcement in an urban setting.
Brooklyn’s illicit distilling conflicts joined neighborhood production, federal revenue enforcement, municipal politics, ethnicity, and organized resistance. The episode shows that “moonshine” was not only a remote Appalachian phenomenon but could be an urban industry entangled with local political protection and state power.
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