Anglo American life insurance, 1800-1914
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- Author(s) Alborn, Timothy L, & Sharon A Murphy (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 3 vols; illus
- Publisher Pickering & Chatto
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Collection of contemporary texts from prospectuses, other legal documents, pamphlets, books, articles, etc, touching on the history of US and British life insurance and intended as an easy access resource. Arranged in three volumes, viz: 1] 'What is life insurance?, Why should you insure?, Selling life insurance to the public'; 2] 'Running a life insurance company'; 3] 'Mortality and risk'. Types of texts from which material extracted are articles from trade journals; technical accounts; fiction and verse; exposes; medical data and statistics