The Hamburg marine insurance, 1736-1859 / / by Markus A. Denzel ; translated by Franziska Streng.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in maritime history ; Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Denzel, Markus A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Streng, Franziska,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in maritime history ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (435 pages)

Since 1736, Hamburg's price current consistently listed the marine insurance premiums of the Hanseatic Town as well as of many other European ports. Based on the long-term analysis of these quotations over the course of about 120 years, this book sheds light on the factors of influence (such as weather conditions, wars and piracy, to name a few) which interfered with European and intercontinental maritime trade. The cause of the long-term decline of premium rates and, by extension also of transaction costs is understood as a consequence of both the restoration of security on the high seas after the Napoleonic Wars and the elimination of the last nests of piracy around 1830.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Hamburg Currency -- Introduction -- Current State of Research -- Source, Methods and Questions of Research -- 1 Spreading the Risk - Marine Insurance as a Commercial and Financial Innovation in Europe up to the Eighteenth Century -- 1.1 The Beginnings in the Medieval Mediterranean -- 1.2 The Emergence of the Marine Insurance Business in Early Modern Times -- 2 An Entrepôt in the North - Hamburg as a Centre of Maritime Trade and Transport -- 2.1 Hamburg's Maritime Trade from the Late Seventeenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries -- 2.2 Hamburg as a Centre of Maritime Transport -- 3 Depending on the City's Commerce - the 'Regional' Hamburg Insurance Market in the Eighteenth Century -- 3.1 Marine Insurance and Convoy Shipping -- 3.2 Juridical Bases of the Hamburg Marine Insurance Business -- 3.3 The Hamburg Marine Insurance Market as "Centre of the Whole North" -- 4 A Business of Its Own - the 'Global' Hamburg Insurance Market in the Nineteenth Century -- 4.1 The Changing Basic Conditions in International Shipping -- 4.2 The Business of (Joint-Stock) Marine Insurance Companies in Hamburg -- 4.3 The Marine Insurance Business in Hamburg up to the 1850s -- 5 From Arkhangelsk to Cádiz - Marine Insurance Rates for Destinations in the Atlantic -- 5.1 The North Atlantic: Greenland and Arkhangelsk -- 5.2 Norway -- 5.3 From the German North Sea Coast to the Sound -- 5.4 The Netherlands -- 5.5 The British Isles -- 5.6 The French Atlantic Coast -- 5.7 The Iberian Atlantic Coast -- 6 From Málaga to Smyrna - Marine Insurance Rates for Destinations in the Mediterranean Sea -- 6.1 The Western Mediterranean -- 6.2 The Eastern Mediterranean -- 7 From the Sound to Saint Petersburg - Marine Insurance Rates for Destinations in the Baltic Sea -- 7.1 The Hamburg Premium Rates -- 7.2 The Lübeck Premium Rates.

7.3 Premium Rates from Amsterdam, London, Bordeaux, Portugal, and the Mediterranean -- 8 From New York to Lima - Marine Insurance Rates for Destinations in the Americas -- 8.1 The Iberian Transatlantic Routes in the Eighteenth Century -- 8.2 North American East Coast and Gulf of Mexico -- 8.3 The Caribbean -- 8.4 South America and California -- 8.5 The Russian Transatlantic Routes in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 9 From the Cape to Canton - Marine Insurance Rates for Destinations in the Indian Ocean -- 9.1 The European Routes to East India in the Eighteenth Century -- 9.2 The Hamburg Marine Insurance Premium Rates in the Nineteenth Century -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: The Geographic Range of the Premium Quotations in the Hamburg Price Current, 1736 to 1859 -- Appendix 2: The Premium Quotations in the Hamburg Price Current, 1736 to 1859 -- Bibliography -- Geographic Index -- Subject Index.