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3 books about Madeira tagged “trade”.
A classic mid-century monograph on Madeira wine, part of Croft-Cooke’s fortified-wine trilogy alongside his books on Sherry and Port — a literary, historically minded account of the island’s wine and trade. Available secondhand.
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.
Alberto Vieira rethinks Madeira’s economic history (in Portuguese), moving beyond product-and-cycle accounts to neglected themes such as finance and contraband in the archipelago.