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Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) (1st Edition) by Prof. David Hancock Hardcover, 680 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-300-13605-6 / 0300136056 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-13605-0 / 9780300136050 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 globalizi |