| Description |
xvii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Financial history ; no. 15 |
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Financial history (London, England) ; no. 15
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 7.From Economic to Political Reality: Forming a Nationalized Indian Life Insurance Market / Adrian Jitschin -- 8.Life Offices to the Rescue! A History of the Role of Life Assurance in the South African Economy During the Twentieth Century / Grietjie Verhoef -- 9.Competing Globalizations: Controversies between Private and Social Insurance at International Organizations, 1900-60 / Martin Lengwiler |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Non-Life Insurance -- 1.The Marine Insurance Market for British Textile Exports to the River Plate and Chile, c. 1810-50 / Manuel Llorca-Jana -- 2.Actuarial Practice, Probabilistic Thinking and Actuarial Science in Private Casualty Insurance / Christofer Stadlin -- 3.The Difficulties of Spanish Insurance Companies to Modernize during the Franco Years: The Mechanization of Administrative Tasks and the Introduction of the First Computers, 1950-70 / Jeronia Pons Pons -- 4.Multilateral Liberalization, 1948-2008 / Welf Werner -- pt. II Life, Health and Social Insurance -- 5.Policyholders in the Early Business of Japanese Life Assurance: A Demand-Side Study / Takau Yoneyama -- 6.Industrial Life Insurance and the Cost of Dying: The Role of Endowment and Whole Life Insurance in Anglo-Saxon and European Countries during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries / Liselotte Eriksson -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Financial institutions, International -- History.
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Insurance -- History.
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| Author |
Pearson, Robin, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2011380404 |
| ISBN |
1848930755 (hbk.) |
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9781848930759 (hbk.) |
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