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The Tontine : a history / Andrew McDiarmid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDiarmid, Andrew, University College Dublin., author.
- Series:
- Routledge Focus on Financial History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tontine life insurance policies--History.
- Tontine life insurance policies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 94 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Andrew McDiarmid earned his PhD from the University of Dundee and attended Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on financial history from the early modern period to the twentieth century, with his first monograph on the subject of the Scottish Financial Revolution released in 2023. He is currently the SFI/IRC pathways fellow at University College Dublin, where he is undertaking a major project exploring the history of tontines between the seventeenth andnineteenth centuries.
- Contents:
- 1.The Tontine: Here, There, and Everywhere2.The Origins and Early Examples of the Tontine: 1602-16993.Public Tontines in the Eighteenth Century4.Private Tontines in Great Britain and Ireland, Europe, and North America: 1750-19005.The Rise and Fall of Tontine Life Insurance in the United States, 1867-19066.The Long Shadow of the TontineIndex
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 09, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781003491002
- 1003491006
- 9781040251546
- 1040251544
- 9781040251621
- 1040251625
- Publisher Number:
- 40032494948
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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