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Title Anglo-American life insurance, 1800-1914 / edited by Timothy Alborn and Sharon Ann Murphy
Published London ; Brookfield, Vermont : Pickering & Chatto, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (1460 pages)
Contents Volume 1. What is life insurance?, what should you insure?, selling life insurance to the public -- Volume 2. Running a life insurance company -- Volume 3. Mortality and risk
Summary By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes The print version record
Subject Life insurance -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Life insurance -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Life insurance
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Alborn, Timothy, 1964- editor
Murphy, Sharon Ann, 1974- editor
ISBN 9781781445112
1781445117