General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business

Chapter 1 Sharing Risks, on Averages and Why They Matter

Chapter 2 General Average and All the Rest: The Law and Economics of Early Modern Maritime Risk Mitigation

Chapter 3 Risky Narratives: Framing General Average into Risk-Management Strategies (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)

Chapter 4 General Average in Byzantium

Chapter 5 Rules and Practices of General Average in the Islamic Mediterranean on the Eve of the Emergence of the Italian Communes

Chapter 6 Principles and Developments of General Average: Statutory and Contractual Loss Allowances from the Lex Rhodia to the Early Modern Mediterranean

Chapter 7 The ‘Mutualisation’ of Maritime Risk in the Crown of Castile, 1300–1550

Chapter 8 General Average, Compulsory Contributions and Castilian Normative Practice in the Southern Low Countries (Sixteenth Century)

Chapter 9 The Nautical Republic of the Carrera de Indias: Commerce, Navigation, Casos Fortuitos and Avería Gruesa in the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 10 General Average in Genoa: Between Statutes and Customs

Chapter 11 The Economic Structure of Maritime Trade Calling at the Port of Genoa Through the Analysis of General Average Data (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)

Chapter 12 Financing and Risk in Genoese Maritime Trade During the Eighteenth Century: Strategies and Practices

Chapter 13 Divide and Rule: Risk Sharing and Political Economy in the Free Port of Livorno

Chapter 14 GA Adjustments in Amsterdam: Reinforcing Authority Through Transparency and Accountability (Late Sixteenth–Early Seventeenth Century)

Chapter 15 ‘The Honour of Giving My Opinion’: General Average, Insurance and the Compilation of the Ordonnance de la marine of 1681