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Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste

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An edition of Oceans of wine (2009)

Oceans of wine

Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste

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"This innovative book examines how, between 1640 and 1815, the Portuguese Madeira wine trade shaped the Atlantic world and American society. David Hancock painstakingly reconstructs the lives of producers. distributors, and consumers, as well as the economic and social structures created by globalizing commerce, to reveal an intricate interplay between individuals and market forces. Ranging widely across history, economics, chemistry, material culture, anthropology, archaeology, and psychology, Hancock paints an engaging portrait of a commodity and the societies that grew up around it. Wine lovers and Madeira enthusiasts will enjoy Oceans of Wine, as will historians interested in food, colonial trade, and the history of the Atlantic region." "Using voluminous archives of records pertaining to wine, many of them previously unexamined, Hancock offers a dramatic new perspective on the economic and social development of the Atlantic world by challenging traditional interpretations that have identified states and empires as the driving force behind trade. He demonstrates convincingly just how decentralized the early modern commercial system was, as well as how self-organized, a system that emerged from the actions of market participants working across imperial lines. The networks they formed began as commercial structures, and expanded into social and political systems that were conduits not only for wine but also for ideas about reform, revolution, and independence. Oceans if Wine reframes American history as Atlantic history, placing colonial America and the early republic within an expansive, global context."--BOOK JACKET.

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Pages
632

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Table of Contents

Introduction: "An unbounded ocean of business
laid open to us"
The triumph of Bacchus
The culture of the vine
The enlivening grape
"A revolution in this trade"
A "commerce of minds" : Madeira distributors and their customers
Merchants into capitalists
Strong networks of weak ties : importing and wholesaling wine in early America
The wet goods business
"Articles of nourishment both mundane and useful" : wine consumption in an emerging Atlantic economy
"Power to give sudden refreshment" and respect : health, refinement, and the consumption of wine
Ars bibendi : "the fashionable ornaments of life"
Coda: "The pleasures of the bottle"
Conclusion: "If Bacchus, not Neptune, were god of the sea."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-591) and index.

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New Haven
Series
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history, Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.4/7663226094698
Library of Congress
HD9385.P83 M334 2009, HD9385.P83M334 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxix, 632 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
632

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Open Library
OL24748622M
Internet Archive
oceansofwinemade00hanc
ISBN 10
0300136056
ISBN 13
9780300136050
LCCN
2009015934
OCLC/WorldCat
317471725

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