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 and imag...
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Chapel Hill : Williamsburg, Virginia :
University of North Carolina Press ; Omohundro Institute of Early American and Culture,
[2021].
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Table of 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 5058 7. State Making and Myth Making, 1820-1860
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.