Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1: What Is Life Insurance? Why Should You Insure? Selling Life Insurance to the Public

ISBN-13: 9781138750197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 448 str.

Timothy Alborn;Sharon Ann Murphy

Opis

By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.

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British Life Insurance in the 1840s; Richard Morgan, Familiar Observations on Life Insurance (1841), Chapter 4; Life Insurance Offices, New and Speculative, with a Table of the Inducements Held Out by Each of the Existing Offices (1846), excerpt; The Emergence of American Life Insurance; ‘Securitas’, ‘Life Insurance’, Connecticut Courant (1833); T. R. Jencks, ‘Life Insurance in the United States, Number I’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review (1843); T. R. Jencks, ‘Life Insurance in the United States, Number II’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review (1843); Early Prospectuses; William Frend, Rock Life Assurance Company (1809); An Address from the President and Directors of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities to the Inhabitants of the United States, upon the Subject of the Beneficial Objects of that Institution (1814); Proposals and Rates of the Standard Life Assurance Company (1833); Proposals and Rates of the Standard Life Assurance Company (1833); New American Prospectuses; William Bard, A Letter to David E. Evans, Esquire, of Batavia, on Life Insurance (1832); Life Insurance: Its Principles, Operations and Benefits, as Presented by the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (1849); John Freestone, Where to Insure: An Impartial and Independent Guide (1890),Excerpt; John Freestone, Where to Insure: An Impartial and Independent Guide (1890), excerpt; Religion and LifE Insurance in America; Charter of the Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen (1769), excerpt; ‘Life Insurance’, Religious Intelligencer (1835); ‘Life Insurance – Ministers’, Christian Secretary (1847); ‘Life Insurance – A Scruple’, Christian Secretary (1847); ‘Life Insurance of Ministers’, Christian Secretary (1847); ‘Prospectus of the Dissenters’ and General Life and Fire Assurance Company’, Eclectic Review (1839), Excerpt; ‘Prospectus of the Dissenters’ and General Life and Fire Assurance Company’, Eclectic Revi

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Timothy Alborn