Staying afloat [electronic resource] : risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 / Jeremy Baskes.

By: Baskes, Jeremy, 1961-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Social science historyPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013Description: xiv, 393 p. : illISBN: 9780804786355 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Risk management -- Spain -- History | Merchant marine -- Spain -- History | Marine insurance -- Spain -- History | Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History | Spain -- Commerce -- America -- History | America -- Commerce -- Spain -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 382.0946/01821 LOC classification: HF3685 | .B37 2013Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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