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Oceans of wine : Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste / David Hancock.

Oceans of wine : Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste / David Hancock.

 
 
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Author/Artist: 
Hancock, David, 1957-
Publisher: 
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Series: 
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Subjects: 
Madeira wine History 19th century.
Fortified wine industry Madeira Islands Madeira History 19th century.
Madeira (Madeira Islands) Commerce Atlantic Ocean Region.
Atlantic Ocean Region Commerce Madeira Islands Madeira.
Record Number
ISBN: 
9780300136050 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300136056 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bib ID: 
113240
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Description
xxix, 632 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."
Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG objects: 86.4.196, plates between 306 and 307 --
87.4.55, plates between 306 and 307.