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Britain and America 1650–1850: Harmonising Government and Commerce

In: Marine Insurance

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  • Guy Chet

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Claims that merchants were enemies of commerce raiding (piracy, privateering, and wrecking) are based on assumptions that such activity was harmful to trade, and that the victims of maritime predation would take the lead in advocating and lobbying for its suppression. Historians indeed point to convoys — groups of merchant ships travelling with protective naval escorts — as an early example of successful lobbying by commercial interest groups for government action to protect merchant vessels from maritime predation, indicating a shift in public and mercantile attitudes and beliefs about piracy. However, the practice of insuring ships and cargoes against risks at sea insulated merchants and investors from much of the damage caused by armed commerce, while allowing them to continue to reap the benefits such activities offered.1

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  • Guy Chet, 2016. "Britain and America 1650–1850: Harmonising Government and Commerce," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: A. B. Leonard (ed.), Marine Insurance, chapter 11, pages 248-268, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-1-137-41138-9_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137411389_11
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