Oceans of wine Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-591) and index. - 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 min...
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New Haven, Conn. u.a.
Yale Univ. Press
c 2009
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| Schriftenreihe: | The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-591) and index. - 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." |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXIX, 632, [8] S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300136050 978-0-300-13605-0 0300136056 0-300-13605-6 |