Kontrabandisten aurkako neurriak XVIII. mendeko Euskal Herrian:

Abstract

The aim of this work is to measure the values of different answers given to smuggling, a conflictive business in the Basque Country of the XVIII century. All historical members of the Basque lands (County Councils, population, Spanish representatives) tried to face up to smuggling; in consequence, considering the wishes of each of these historical actors, we will see which were their strategies, agreements and conflicts to undertake the problem and how were they like. Actually, the wish of all Basque institutions was the disappearance of dangerous smuggling; they pretended to stop the illegal operations carried out by smugglers and other malefactors. Furthermore, after making disappear the refuges for smugglers, authorities thought they had a greater and better control on Basque lands and population. For this reason, the matter we write on in this article is closely related to the development of the New State in the XVIII century.