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Staying afloat : risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820
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- Creator
- Jeremy Baskes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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- Physical Details
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- xiv, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804786356, 0804785422, 9780804786355, 9780804785426
- OCLC
- on1198930922, ocn818953189, ocn851431287
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-379) and index.
- 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