Regulated Lives : Life Insurance and British Society, 1800-1914 /

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Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn's unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alborn, Timothy L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Temas:
Life insurance > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Life insurance > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Appendix 3. Life Insurance Offices' Investments, 1871-1910
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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