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Risky Markets : Marine Insurance in Renaissance Florence.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Studies in Maritime History SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2020Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (379 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004442450
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Risky MarketsLOC classification:
  • HG8629.F56 .C433 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to This Edition -- Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Note on Dates, Names and Currencies -- Chapter 1 Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Chapter 2 Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Chapter 3 Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Chapter 4 Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- Chapter 5 The Premium: Structural Factors -- Chapter 6 The Premium: Contingent Factors -- Chapter 7 The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- Chapter 8 The Market and Its Operators: Demand -- Chapter 9 The Market and Its Operators: Supply -- Chapter 10 The Market and Its Operators: Techniques and Organisational -- Chapter 11 The Market and Its Operators: The "Risk Experts" -- Chapter 12 Institutions Again: Informal Safeguards -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Risky Markets explores a crucial moment in marine insurance history, when tools to tackle risks are in the making. It accounts for one of the earliest attempts of a specialized insurance market is carried out in Renaissance Florence.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to This Edition -- Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Note on Dates, Names and Currencies -- Chapter 1 Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Chapter 2 Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Chapter 3 Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Chapter 4 Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- Chapter 5 The Premium: Structural Factors -- Chapter 6 The Premium: Contingent Factors -- Chapter 7 The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- Chapter 8 The Market and Its Operators: Demand -- Chapter 9 The Market and Its Operators: Supply -- Chapter 10 The Market and Its Operators: Techniques and Organisational -- Chapter 11 The Market and Its Operators: The "Risk Experts" -- Chapter 12 Institutions Again: Informal Safeguards -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index.

Risky Markets explores a crucial moment in marine insurance history, when tools to tackle risks are in the making. It accounts for one of the earliest attempts of a specialized insurance market is carried out in Renaissance Florence.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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