General average and risk management in medieval and early modern maritime business / edited by Maria Fusaro, Andrea Addobbati, Luisa Piccinno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fusaro, Maria, editor.

Addobbati, Andrea, editor.

Piccinno, Luisa, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipping--Europe--History--To 1500.

Shipping.

Average (Maritime law)--Europe--History--To 1500.

Average (Maritime law).

Shipping--Risk management.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 499 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Contents:

Part 1, Why and how risk is shared: Introduction : sharing risks, on averages and why they matter / Maria Fusaro

General average and all the rest : the law and economics of early modern maritime risk mitigation / Ron Harris

Risky narratives : framing general average into risk-management strategies (13th-16th centuries) / Giovanni Ceccarelli.

Part 2, Origins and variants of mutual protection: General average in Byzantium / Daphne Penna

Rules and practices of general average in the Islamic Mediterranean on the eve of the emergence of the Italian communes / Hassan Khalilieh

Principles and developments of general average : statutory and contractual loss allowances from the Lex Rhodia to the early modern Mediterranean / Andrea Addobbati.

Part 3, The Iberian experience: The 'mutualisation' of maritime risk in the crown of Castile, 1300-1550 / Ana María Rivera Medina

General average, compulsory contributions and Castilian normative practice in the southern low countries (sixteenth century) / Gijs Dreijer

The nautical republic of the Carrera de Indias : commerce, navigation, casos fortuitos and avería gruesa in the sixteenth century / Marta García Garralón.

Part 4, The Genoese experience: General average in Genoa : between statutes and customs / Antonio Iodice

The economic structure of maritime trade calling at the port of genoa through the analysis of general average data (16th-17th centuries) / Luisa Piccinno

Financing and risk in Genoese maritime trade during the eighteenth century : strategies and practices / Andrea Zanini.

Part 5, Mature systems: Divide and rule : risk sharing and political economy in the free port of Livorno / Jake Dyble

GA adjustments in Amsterdam : reinforcing authority through transparency and accountability (late sixteenth - early seventeenth century) / Sabine Go

'The honour of giving my opinion' : general average, insurance and the compilation of the ordonnance de la marine of 1681 / Lewis Wade.

Notes:

Open access version available.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-478) and index.

ISBN:

9783031041174

3031041178

9783031041204

3031041208

OCLC:

1365638275

Publisher Number:

99994190512