LEADER 03668nam 2200661 450 001 9910818383303321 005 20231206213409.0 010 $a1-4426-8588-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442685888 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054212 035 $a(EBL)3272670 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000482752 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12230010 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482752 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529067 035 $a(PQKB)10125190 035 $a(CEL)435072 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226199 035 $a(DE-B1597)479183 035 $a(OCoLC)987920961 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442685888 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672433 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258100 035 $a(OCoLC)958562765 035 $a(OCoLC)1088685610 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672433 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054212 100 $a20160923h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe appeal of insurance /$fedited by Geoffrey Clark [and three others] 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4426-4065-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aHow to tame chance : evolving languages of risk, trust, and expertise in eighteenth-century German proto-insurances / Eve Rosenhaft -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's work on insurance / J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg and Christian Thomann -- The slave's appeal : insurance and the rise of commercial property / Geoffrey Clark -- Fire, property insurance, and perceptions of risk in eighteenth-century Britain / Robin Pearson -- A licence to bet : life insurance and the Gambling Act in the British courts / Timothy Alborn -- "The rules of prudence" : political liberalism and life assurance in the nineteenth century / Liz McFall -- Honesty, fidelity, and insurance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England / Gregory Anderson -- Competing appeals : the rise of mixed welfare economies in Europe, 1850-1945 / Martin Lengwiler -- Employers and industrial accident insurance in Spain, 1900-1963 / Jero|nia Pons Pons -- Five ironies of insurance / Aaron Doyle and Richard Ericson. 330 $a"Insurance today is a global economic colossus and a fixture in the developed countries of the world. Dependant upon a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal, the insurance industry has become a pervasive agent of social and economic control through its delineation of acceptable (compensated) and unacceptable (uncompensated) risk. The Appeal of Insurance traces the ways in which insurance, over the past three centuries, has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays break new ground in insurance studies by illuminating the dialectical relationship between the expansion of the insurance business and the public demand for economic and social security."--Pub. desc. 606 $aInsurance$xHistory 606 $aInsurance 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInsurance$xHistory. 615 0$aInsurance. 676 $a368.009 702 $aClark$b Geoffrey 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818383303321 996 $aThe appeal of insurance$93946907 997 $aUNINA