“…The Dutch trade connections with those emerging Atlantic economies where the global “Great Divergence” started (Allen, , ; de Vries, , ), together with their colonial routes, offered new opportunities to initiate processes of crop diversification and commercial specialization in vineyards and arboriculture in the Mediterranean bioregion (Álvarez‐Nogal, Prados De La Escosura, & Santiago‐Caballero, ; Llopis, ; Sebastián‐Amarilla, ). However, the extent of these agrarian changes would depend on the prevailing socio‐institutional setting in each region and kingdom (Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson, ; de Vries, ; Fusaro, ).…”