Risks at Sea: Amsterdam Insurance and Maritime Europe, 1766-1780. Spooner<|

Risks at SeaAmsterdam Insurance and Maritime Europe, 17661780\nAuthor(s): Frank C. Spooner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521893879, 978-0521893879\nSynopsis\nThis book places the marine insurance business of Amsterdam in the wider context of the political economy of Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century. The analysis is based on the simultaneous quotations of premiums for the twenty-two groups of destinations which formed a major part of the commerical matrix of the Netherlands. It considers the operation of the market at two levels. On the one hand, the provision of insurance responded to risk uncertainties in the market: in the 1760s and 1770s, Amsterdam experienced three serious unheavals, in the form of the financial crises of 1763 and [tel] and the hostilities leading to American independence and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. On the other hand, underwriters accepted ris.