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The Beneficent Usurpers

A History of the British in Madeira

by Desmond Gregory · 1988 edition

An extensively researched account of nearly two centuries of British commercial and social influence on Madeira, tracing how resident merchant families informally “colonised” the island as a key staging post in transatlantic trade.

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Author
Desmond Gregory
Edition year
1988
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780838633267
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