Acknowledgments

THIS BOOK would not have been written but for the help and encouragement I have enjoyed from a whole range of people and institutions. I owe a special debt to libraries and archives in many countries, including those of the Ateneo and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid; the British Library, Guildhall Library, and British Library of Political & Economic Science in London; the Archivo and Biblioteca Municipal in Jerez de la Frontera; the Bibliothèque and the Archives Départementales de la Gironde in Bordeaux; the Bibliothèque Municipal in Épernay; the Biblioteca Nazionale, Firenze; the FAO Library, Rome; Special Collections at the University of California, Davis; the North Baker Research Library, San Francisco; the State Libraries of South Australia and Victoria in Australia; the Biblioteca Nacional in Buenos Aires; and the Biblioteca Municipal and the Instituto Nacional de Vitivinicultura in Mendoza. However, the institution that has been crucial to this undertaking is without doubt the Viticulture and Enology Collection at UC Davis. The chief librarian, Axel Borg, deserves special mention: not only did he respond to all my demands for help, but he was active in putting me in contact with other scholars and people who have been of invaluable help to this work.

My colleagues at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have shown tremendous patience and support, especially over the past two or three years. Juan Carmona, Eva Fernández, and Joan Roses all took the time and trouble to read the manuscript at one moment or another and gave useful comments. Antonio Tena helped with the trade figures, and Leandro Prados de la Escosura provided sound advice and encouragement as always.

I am particularly grateful to Kym Anderson, Antonio Miguel Bernal, Luis Bértola, Hubert Bonin, Thomas Brennan, Jean-Michel Chevet, Carlos Coello, Luis Coria, Nicholas Faith, Valmai Hankel, Francisco Javier Fernández Roca, Lina Gálvez, Regina Grafe, Kolleen Guy, Colleen Haight, Pablo Lacoste, Pedro Lains, Ian McLean, José Miguel Martínez Carrión, Enrique Montañés, José María O’Kean, Vicente Pinilla, Ramón Ramón, Blanca Sánchez Alonso, Alessandro Stanziani, Steve Stein, Ron Weir, Nickolai Wenzel, and Bartolome Yun for their comments and help.

I enjoyed many visits to the London School of Economics, where I wish to thank especially Dudley Baines, Gerben Bakker, Janet Hunter, Tim Leunig, Colin Lewis, Patrick O’Brien, and Max Schultze. When not in London I seem to have been at UC Davis, where Julian Alston, Greg Clark, Peter Lindert, Alan Olmstead, and Alan Taylor all provided great encouragement. In Davis I enjoyed meals and conversations with Marta Altisent, Mary McComb, and JaRue Manning. Darrell Corti showed great enthusiasm about my work and provided some outstanding wines for me to sample. In Mendoza, Ana Mateu and Lizzi Pasteris looked after me and showed me around the town, as did Jan Burbery in Melbourne.

I benefited greatly from long conversions with Jim Lapsley, who gave me important feedback on a number of chapters. Patricia Barrios kindly gave me access to some of her unpublished work in Mendoza and provided very useful criticism on an early draft of chapter 11. Paul Duguid was particularly helpful with his comments on the British trade. John Nye and Harvey Smith both read an earlier version with great attention and gave detailed notes on how to improve the manuscript. Begoña Prieto has never ceased to encourage me in this project and provided the means to organize a congress on wine economics in Silos, Burgos, in 2010.

I owe a special debt to Joel Mokyr, the series editor, for his enthusiasm and wise comments. At Princeton University Press I especially wish to thank Janie Chan, Dale Cotton, Lauren Lepow, and Seth Ditchik, and Dimitri Karetnikov for the maps.

The Spanish government generously funded a sabbatical at the London School of Economics (PR2008-0043) and provided research money for visits to numerous other academic institutions (ECO2009-10739, SEJ2006-08188/ECON, BEC2003-06481). I also thank Alan Olmstead for funding provided by the Institute of Governmental Affairs, and Alan Taylor at the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy, both at UC Davis.

Various chapters in this book build on material previously published elsewhere. These include “Selling to Reluctant Drinkers: The British Wine Market, 1860–1914,” Economic History Review 57 (1) (2004): 80–108; “Cooperation and Conflicts: Institutional Innovation in France’s Wine Markets, 1870–1911,” Business History Review 79 (Autumn 2005): 527–58; “Too Little Regulation? The British Market for Sherry, 1840–90,” Business History 47 (3), (2005): 367–82; and “Factor Endowments, Markets and Vertical Integration: The Development of Commercial Wine Production in Argentina, Australia and California, c1870–1914,” Revista de Historia Económica. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 29 (1) (2011).

A number of loyal and close friends have given invaluable support during this undertaking, including Pepe, Lindy, Kate, Madeleine, Miles, Nuala, Isabel, Elías, Gerardo, Lourdes, Maribel, Ramón and Sole. Azucena in particular was tremendous in my hour of need and greatly helped in getting this book finished.

My final debt is to those of my family who failed to see this project finished, namely, Ba, Mary, and, most tragically, both Gordon and María Jesús. María Jesús was a magnificent companion for almost thirty years, and without her I would never have come to Spain and become an academic. It is to her memory that this book is dedicated.