General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business
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| Summary: | XXVI, 499 p. 18 illus., 17 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04118-1 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Why and How Risk is Shared
- 1. Introduction: Sharing Risks, on Averages and Why they Matter; Maria Fusaro
- 2. General Average and All the Rest: The Law and Economics of Early Modern Maritime Risk Mitigation; Ron Harris
- 3. Risky Narratives: Framing General Average into Risk-Management Strategies (13th-16th Centuries); Giovanni Ceccarelli
- Part 2: Origins and Variants of Mutual Protection
- 4. General Average in Byzantium; Daphne Penna
- 5. Rules and Practices of General Average in the Islamic Mediterranean on the Eve of the Emergence of the Italian Communes; Hassan Khalilieh
- 6. 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
- 7. The ‘Mutualisation’ of Maritime Risk in the Crown of Castile, 1300-1550; Ana María Rivera Medina
- 8. General Average, Compulsory Contributions and Castilian Normative Practice in the Southern Low Countries (Sixteenth Century); Gijs Dreijer
- 9. 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
- 10. General Average in Genoa: Between Statutes and Customs; Antonio Iodice
- 11. The Economic Structure of Maritime Trade Calling at the Port of Genoa through the Analysis of General Average Data (16th-17th centuries); Luisa Piccinno
- 12. Financing and Risk in Genoese Maritime Trade during the Eighteenth Century: Strategies and Practices; Andrea Zanini
- Part 5: Mature Systems
- 13. Divide and Rule: Risk Sharing and Political Economy in the Free Port of Livorno; Jake Dyble
- 14. GA Adjustments in Amsterdam: Reinforcing Authority through Transparency and Accountability (late Sixteenth - early Seventeenth Century); Sabine Go
- 15. ‘The Honour of Giving my Opinion’: General Average, Insurance and theCompilation of the Ordonnance de la Marine of 1681; Lewis Wade.