"As the fall-out of the Ever Given Suez canal blockage shows, an ancient instrument like General Average (GA) is still highly relevant in redistributing risks and costs in maritime trade. However, bar marine insurance, not much is known about the development of tools of maritime risk management...

"This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 177 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type of primary sources on the transition from sail to steam navigation,...

Spreading the risk : marine insurance as a commercial and financial innovation in Europe up to the eighteenth century -- An entrepôt in the north : Hamburg as a centre of maritime trace and transport -- Depending on the city's commerce : the 'regional' Hamburg insurance market in the eighteenth...

Introduction -- Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- The Premium: Structural Factors -- The Premium: Contingent Factors -- The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- The Market...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to This Edition -- Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Note on Dates, Names and Currencies -- Chapter 1 Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Chapter 2 Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Chapter 3 Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Chapter 4 Trade...

Introduction: "Old ships [sail] like swans asleep ... for Famagusta and the hidden sun" -- A holy site for sailors: Our Lady of the Cave in Famagusta / Michele Bacci -- Placed in the midst of enemies?: material evidence for the existence of maritime cultural networks connecting...