Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn's unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate and resist elements of modernity such as statistical thinking, medicalization, and capitalist bureaucracy.
The nature of Victorian life insurance companies meant that their customers were both consuming subjects and objectified abstractions. Policyholders were active consumers of a product...
Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and...
The life insurance industry was one of the most important financial institutions of the long 19th century, on both sides of the Atlantic. By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child alive at the time, whilst in Britain the life insurance market grew steadily from its narrow aristocratic base to encompass all social classes at home and throughout the empire. The sources in this edition are collected in three themed volumes.
The life insurance industry was one of the most important financial institutions of the long 19th century, on both sides of the Atlantic. By the eve o...
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.
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 it...
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.
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 it...
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.
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 it...
