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Trade

3 books about Madeira tagged “trade”.

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Madeira Wine

Madeira

Rupert Croft-Cooke

English · 1961 edition

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.

Cover of The Beneficent Usurpers

History & Culture

With selection notes

The Beneficent Usurpers

Desmond Gregory

English · 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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