Baskes, Jeremy, 1961-
Staying afloat risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 / [electronic resource] : Jeremy Baskes. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013. - xiv, 393 p. : ill. - Social science history .
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Risk management--History.--Spain
Merchant marine--History.--Spain
Marine insurance--History.--Spain
Spain--Colonies--History.--America
Spain--Commerce--History.--America
America--Commerce--History.--Spain
Electronic books.
HF3685 / .B37 2013eb
382.0946/01821
Staying afloat risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 / [electronic resource] : Jeremy Baskes. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013. - xiv, 393 p. : ill. - Social science history .
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Risk management--History.--Spain
Merchant marine--History.--Spain
Marine insurance--History.--Spain
Spain--Colonies--History.--America
Spain--Commerce--History.--America
America--Commerce--History.--Spain
Electronic books.
HF3685 / .B37 2013eb
382.0946/01821