Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance. Volume 2. The era of the insurance giants

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Scholarly commissioned history providing a comprehensive analysis of a leading business from the 1870s mostly to 1945 with much more general coverage thereafter. Adopts a broadly chronological approach. Its chapters include: 'Phoenix in the home market, 1870-1914'; 'The overseas dimension resumed - everywhere except the United States, 1870-1914'; 'The overseas dimension resumed - the Phoenix rises in the United States'; 'Phoenix and profit making in the foreign market - the world map, 1870-1914'; 'The quest for a composite insurance company'; 'Insurance and total war, 1914-18'; 'Expansion, and strange contraction, of a composite office'; 'The Phoenix, the insurance sector and the UK economy of the interwar years'; 'The Phoenix and the world's largest insurance market, 1918-39'; 'The rest of the foreign markets, 1918-39; 'Phoenix and total war, 1939-45'; 'From war to the end, 1945-85'. Throughout deals at length with investment policies