TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baskes,Jeremy
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Staying afloat: risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 
AV  - HF3685 .B37 2013eb
U1  - 382.0946/01821 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Risk management
KW  - Spain
KW  - History
KW  - Merchant marine
KW  - Marine insurance
KW  - Colonies
KW  - America
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10726009
ER  -