02443nam 2200625 450 991078690690332120230803034730.01-78144-511-7(CKB)3710000000109660(EBL)1699796(SSID)ssj0001325662(PQKBManifestationID)11788671(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001325662(PQKBWorkID)11516286(PQKB)10541455(MiAaPQ)EBC1699796(Au-PeEL)EBL1699796(CaPaEBR)ebr10866520(OCoLC)880457149(EXLCZ)99371000000010966020140517h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnglo-American life insurance, 1800-1914 /edited by Timothy Alborn and Sharon Ann MurphyLondon ;Brookfield, Vermont :Pickering & Chatto,2013.©20131 online resource (1460 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84893-352-5 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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.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.Life insuranceGreat BritainHistory19th centurySourcesLife insuranceUnited StatesHistory19th centurySourcesGreat BritainfastUnited StatesfastGrossbritanniengndUSAgndHistory.fastSources.fastLife insuranceHistoryLife insuranceHistory368.320094109034Alborn Timothy1964-Murphy Sharon Ann1974-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786906903321Anglo-American life insurance, 1800-19143693045UNINA