The Hamburg Marine Insurance, 1736-1859

About the Author

Markus A. Denzel, Prof. Dr. (1967), University of Leipzig, is Full Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History at that university. He has published monographs and articles especially on commercial, financial, and monetary history of the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries.

Product Description

Based on the analysis of Hamburg’s marine insurance premiums for more than 120 years, this book shows that the premiums’ long-term decline has been a consequence of both the restoration of security on the high seas after 1815 and the elimination of piracy around 1830.