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Underwriters of the United States : How Insurance Shaped the American Founding /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Farber, Hannah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1. Insure, Britannia! Marine Insurance and the Maritime Empire, 1622-1776
  • 2. Underwriting a Revolution, 1776-1789
  • 3. Forging "Golden Chains": The Constitutional Project of Chartering Insurance Companies, 1790-1800
  • 4. Investing Capital and Inventing Value, 1800-1815
  • 5. Market Readers, Market Makers: American Insurers at War, 1793-1815
  • 6. Wooden Ships, Paper Capitals: The Rise and Fall of Jacob Barker, 1815-1826
  • 7. State Making and Myth Making, 1820-1860
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
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  • L
  • M
  • N
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