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Author Baskes, Jeremy, 1961- author

Title Staying afloat : risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 / Jeremy Baskes

Imprint Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]

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 OWU Beeghly Stacks  HF3685 .B37 2013     AVAILABLE
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Description xiv, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format volume
  
Bibliography notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-379) and index
Complete contents Introduction : risk and uncertainty -- Staying informed : the risks of poor information in Atlantic world trade -- The institutions of trade and the reduction of market risk : the convoy system -- Comercio libre and the rise of commercial risk -- The rising demand for credit and the escalation of risk in the post-1778 era -- Trade in war and peace -- Underwriting risk : the structure and organization of insurance partnerships in late eighteenth-century Cadiz -- Insuring against risk : analysis of insurance policies and the perception of risk in Atlantic world trade -- War and commercial crisis : the profitability of the Cadiz insurance industry in the 1790s -- Conclusion : staying afloat
  
Subject Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History
Spain -- Commerce -- America -- History
America -- Commerce -- Spain -- History
Risk management -- Spain -- History
Merchant marine -- Spain -- History
Marine insurance -- Spain -- History
Alternate Title O.W.U. Faculty Publications.
Series Social science history
Social science history
  
ISBN/ISSN 9780804785426
0804785422
LCCN 2013011195
OCLC # 818953189