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Oceans of Wine

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ISBN: 9780300136050

Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste

by David Hancock · 2009 edition

A major scholarly history reconstructing how the Madeira wine trade (c.1640–1815) shaped Atlantic commerce, self-organising merchant networks and American consumer taste.

Madeira wine tradeAtlantic worldAmerican tradeeconomic history

Author: David Hancock
Edition year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780300136050

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