Regulated lives: life insurance and British society, 1800-1914
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Main Author: Alborn, Timothy L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press c2009 (2010)
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-422) and index
1. Insuring Britain -- 2. Regulated Insurance Offices -- 3. Doing Business -- 4. Death and the Actuary -- 5. Death and the Salesman -- 6. Consuming Interest -- 7. Little Piles of Savings -- 8. Victorian Gatekeeping -- 9. Detecting Deviance -- 10. Dealing with Deviance -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Life Insurance Offices Doing Business in Great Britain, 1800--1914 -- Appendix 2. Occupations of Insurance Agents
Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 439 p.)
ISBN:1442697342
9781442697348

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