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



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Autore: Baskes Jeremy <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Staying afloat [[electronic resource] ] : risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 / / Jeremy Baskes Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 393 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Disciplina: 382.0946/01821
Soggetto topico: Risk management - Spain - History
Merchant marine - Spain - History
Marine insurance - Spain - History
Soggetto geografico: Spain Colonies America History
Spain Commerce America History
America Commerce Spain History
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Early 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Staying afloat  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-8635-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786841103321
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Serie: Social science history.