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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

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"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"--

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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding 2021, Omohundro Institute and Unc Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469663630

Hardcover