This study of the brandy trade explores the origins, production and marketing of brandy from the Cognac region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Cullen shows that the brandy trade was based on a sophisticated regional economy, which, by 1720, had become a key component of French involvement in the modern international trading system. Notwithstanding competition from a surplus in other cereals and from foreign markets, regional specialization in the Charente was an indispensable element in ensuring the quality of stable output, and was recognized in the region's success in attracting foreign houses, such as Martell and Hennessy.
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"...a finely crafted monograph on an important topic." Thomas J. Schaeper, American Historical Review
"...fascinating study of the brandy trade....The material is enormously rich....this is a thoughtful book about an important topic. This book makes a real contribution to the subject." Thomas Brennan, Journal of Modern History
"...fascinating study of the brandy trade....The material is enormously rich....this is a thoughtful book about an important topic. This book makes a real contribution to the subject." Thomas Brennan, Journal of Modern History
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This study of the brandy trade explores the origins, production and marketing of brandy from the Cognac region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Cullen shows that the brandy trade was based on a sophisticated regional economy, which, by 1720, had become a key component of French involvement in the modern international trading system. Notwithstanding competition from other cereals and from foreign markets, regional specialisation in the Charente was an indispensable element in ensuring the quality of stable output, and was recognised in the region's success in attracting foreign houses, such as Martell and Hennessy.
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Spirits were an almost unknown product in 1600, and where they did exist, as in Ireland or Scotland, they were the subject of curiosity to the visitor from the outside world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brandy districts, specialist distillers, brandy buying, growing taste for spirits, rectified brandy, brandy buyers, brandy prices, simple brandy, brandy trade, brandy imports, brandy exports, stronger brandy, surviving letter book, distilling season, brandy business, ordinary brandy, fourth distillation, coastal shipments, new brandy, brandy distillation, cognac merchants, older brandy, notarial minutes, brandy distilling, controle des actes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Hennessy, James Hennessy, Huetz de Lemps, Fins Bois, Philippe Augier, John Saule, Laurence Saule, Martell Lallemand, Isle of Man, James Delamain, Etienne Augier, British Isles, Samuel Turner, Theodore Martell, Edward Byrne, Savary des Bruslons, West Indies, George Boyd, Jacques Richard, John Galwey, Petite Champagne, Thomas Blake, Crommelin de la Villette, Gast Lallemand, Jacques Ranson New!
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Spirits were an almost unknown product in 1600, and where they did exist, as in Ireland or Scotland, they were the subject of curiosity to the visitor from the outside world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brandy districts, specialist distillers, brandy buying, growing taste for spirits, rectified brandy, brandy buyers, brandy prices, simple brandy, brandy trade, brandy imports, brandy exports, stronger brandy, surviving letter book, distilling season, brandy business, ordinary brandy, fourth distillation, coastal shipments, new brandy, brandy distillation, cognac merchants, older brandy, notarial minutes, brandy distilling, controle des actes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Hennessy, James Hennessy, Huetz de Lemps, Fins Bois, Philippe Augier, John Saule, Laurence Saule, Martell Lallemand, Isle of Man, James Delamain, Etienne Augier, British Isles, Samuel Turner, Theodore Martell, Edward Byrne, Savary des Bruslons, West Indies, George Boyd, Jacques Richard, John Galwey, Petite Champagne, Thomas Blake, Crommelin de la Villette, Gast Lallemand, Jacques Ranson New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The History of Japan: Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam by Engelbert Kaempfer on page 16, and Back Matter
- Northern Ireland by Joseph Thompson on page 29
- The Isle of Man by Douglas on page 177
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) by Laurence Sterne on page 22
- Northern Ireland by Paul Bew in Front Matter
- The Early Modern Atlantic Economy by John J. McCusker on page 204, and page 222
- Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s by Jim Smyth in Front Matter
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