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Underwriters of the United States : how insurance shaped the American founding Hannah Farber
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HE 964.5 .U5 F37 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farber, Hannah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marine insurance--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Marine insurance.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- United States--History--1783-1815--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line: 1. Inside cover of "Memoir of David Lewis of Springbrook, Esq, and of Philadelphia, by his son David Lewis." 1883. [Gen Le245]; 2. "Insurance policy for Lawrence Williams, March 13, 1739[40]." Insurance papers 1726-1900. [Collection 1552]. Page 52-53.
- ISBN:
- 9781469663630
- 1469663635
- OCLC:
- 1244883082
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