Regulated Lives. Life insurance and British society, 1800-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Alborn, Timothy L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 439pp; illus
- Publisher University of Toronto Press
- Place Published Toronto ON
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with life insurance in Britain, 1800-1914, focusing on the relationship of customers to life companies as both consumers and risks and how conceptions of them changed as the industry developed; with appendices providing a schedule of life companies, 1800-1914; extensive analysis of agents; 'analysis of annual net new life insurance investments', 1882-1910; 'annual yield above or below industry average' for selected life offices, 1895-1910