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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.