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

Author/creator Hancock, David, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxxix, 632 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
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.

SeriesThe Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history. ^A449552
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."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009015934
ISBN9780300136050 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0300136056 (cloth : alk. paper)

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