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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 an...
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 590 | |a 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. | ||
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