LEADER 03397nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910786841103321 005 20230803030411.0 010 $a0-8047-8635-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804786355 035 $a(CKB)2670000000386844 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000918691 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11527915 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918691 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10907302 035 $a(PQKB)11342630 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000175583 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1225632 035 $a(DE-B1597)563870 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804786355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1225632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10726009 035 $a(OCoLC)851431287 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930922 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000386844 100 $a20130319d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStaying afloat$b[electronic resource] $erisk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 /$fJeremy Baskes 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 393 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 225 0 $aSocial Science History 225 0$aSocial science history 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-8542-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 8 $aEarly modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild (consulado) merchants are depicted as anti-competitive monopolists who manipulated markets and exploited colonial consumers. This book argues that much of the commercial behaviour interpreted by modern historians as predatory was instead designed to reduce the uncertainty and risk of Atlantic world trade. 410 0$aSocial science history. 606 $aRisk management$zSpain$xHistory 606 $aMerchant marine$zSpain$xHistory 606 $aMarine insurance$zSpain$xHistory 607 $aSpain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistory 607 $aSpain$xCommerce$zAmerica$xHistory 607 $aAmerica$xCommerce$zSpain$xHistory 615 0$aRisk management$xHistory. 615 0$aMerchant marine$xHistory. 615 0$aMarine insurance$xHistory. 676 $a382.0946/01821 700 $aBaskes$b Jeremy$f1961-$0760062 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786841103321 996 $aStaying afloat$91537242 997 $aUNINA