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"Underwriters of the United States is an excellent book in every respect, full of fresh insight into an overlooked aspect of the history of the new republic...deeply researched, smartly written...provides a new gloss on the early history of the United States.""--Sea History Property insurance is everywhere, but it is rarely prominent in the public mind...This excellent academic analysis of underwriting in the American shipping industry, up until 1860, has much to say about America today...As Farber's entire book shows, insurance is, and always has been, a political business.""--American Affairs Journal"

Property insurance is everywhere, but it is rarely prominent in the public mind...This excellent academic analysis of underwriting in the American shipping industry, up until 1860, has much to say about America today...As Farber's entire book shows, insurance is, and always has been, a political business.--American Affairs Journal

Underwriters of the United States is an excellent book in every respect, full of fresh insight into an overlooked aspect of the history of the new republic...deeply researched, smartly written...provides a new gloss on the early history of the United States. --Sea History Property insurance is everywhere, but it is rarely prominent in the public mind...This excellent academic analysis of underwriting in the American shipping industry, up until 1860, has much to say about America today...As Farber's entire book shows, insurance is, and always has been, a political business. --American Affairs Journal

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Hannah Farber is assistant professor of history at Columbia University.

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