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Oceans of Wine

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.

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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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