Notes:
Glass manufacturing (p. xxi, 30-31, 246, 364-366, 369, 371-372, 376-377, 380-381, 396, 406). Includes information on various glasses, decanters, and wine bottles.
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 Neptun, were god of the sea."
