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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Marine Insurance
    sub title: Origins and Institutions, 1300–1850
  name:
    name part: Leonard, A. B.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 324 p. online resource.
  abstract: Since its invention in Italy in the fourteenth century, marine insurance has provided merchants with capital protection in times of crisis, thus oiling the gears of trade and commerce. With a focus on customs, laws, and organisational structures, this book reveals the Italian origins of marine insurance, and tracks the spread of underwriting practices and institutions in Europe and America through the early modern era. With contributions from eleven leading researchers from seven countries, the book examines key institutional developments in the history of marine insurance. The authors discuss its invention in Italy, and its evolution from private to corporate structures, assessing the causes and impacts of various state interventions. Amsterdam and Antwerp are analysed as one-time key centres of underwriting, as is the emergence and maturity of marine insurance in London. The book evaluates an experiment in corporate underwriting in Cadiz, and the development of insurance institutions in the United States, before applying the metrics of underwriting to discuss commerce raiding in the Atlantic up to the nineteenth century.
  note: edited by A. B. Leonard.
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Insurance
  subject:
    topic: Finance--History
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Financial History
  subject:
    topic: Insurance
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  classification: HG171
  classification: 332.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Series
  identifier: 9781137411389
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137411389
  record info:
    record creation date: 160203
    record change date: 20160406141329.0
    record identifier: 978-1-137-41138-9