Staying afloat risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 /

Main Author: Baskes, Jeremy, 1961-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10726009
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300 |a xiv, 393 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Risk management  |x History.  |z Spain 
650 0 |a Merchant marine  |x History.  |z Spain 
650 0 |a Marine insurance  |x History.  |z Spain 
651 0 |a Spain  |x Colonies  |z America  |x History. 
651 0 |a Spain  |x Commerce  |z America  |x History. 
651 0 |a America  |x Commerce  |z Spain  |x History. 
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