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Regulated lives : life insurance and British society, 1800-1914 / Timothy Alborn.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alborn, Timothy L., 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life insurance--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Life insurance.
- Life insurance--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (452 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Buffalo, [New York] ; Toronto, [Ontario] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9734-2
- OCLC:
- 707712794
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