Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years War, 1756-1763
Privateering has often been portrayed as a particularly risky business. Some historians have posited that it was undertaken only by disreputable merchants, whilst others have argued that profits would not have been made if systems of control had been absent, and that merchants were in fact rational...
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SAGE Publications
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48462/ |