Underwriters of the United States :: how insurance shaped the American founding /

"Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. Deeply an...

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1. Verfasser: Farber, Hannah (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:"Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469663654
1469663651
9781469663647
1469663643

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