Chapters of Insurance History. The origins and development of insurance in England
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- Author(s) Haines, Frederick H
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1926
- Pages 388pp; illus
- Publisher Post Magazine & Insurance Monitor
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Early account by a writer on insurance subjects. Wide ranging. Chapters include: 'Early origins'; 'Period of transition'; 'Marine antiquities'; 'Evolution of the tontine'; 'Genesis of fire insurance'; 'The Fire Office'; 'Competitors of the Fire Office'; 'Early mutual fire insurance'; 'The Sun Fire Office'; 'Development of fire insurance practices'; 'Fighting the flames'; 'Science of fire business'; 'Duty on fire insurance policies'; 'Bubble mania'; 'The chartered companies'; 'History of fire marks'; 'Genesis of life assurance'; 'Early experiments in life assurance'; 'Story of the Amicable Society' [pp262-88]; 'Romance of mortality tables'; 'The Old Equitable' [pp309-39]. In an appendix, headed 'First arguments for fire insurance', transcribes a document, now destroyed, itself headed 'Historical broadsides - beginnings of fire insurance, circa 1680', c1680-81 [pp351-62]