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Atlantic world

2 books about Madeira tagged “Atlantic world”.

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🏛️ History & Culture

Tropical Babylons

Stuart B. Schwartz · 2004

Nine essays re-evaluating the early Atlantic “sugar revolution”, including a chapter on the sugar economy of Madeira and the Canaries, showing how Madeira pioneered the plantation-and-slavery model later exported to the Americas.

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🏛️ History & Culture

Oceans of Wine

David Hancock · 2009

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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