Phoenix Assurance And The Development Of British Insurance 1782 1870
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| Author | : Clive Trebilcock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1100 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521254151 |
This is the second and final volume of the business history of one of the UK's oldest and largest insurance offices, based upon probably the best archive in the business. This volume covers the period from 1870 to the absorption of the Phoenix by Sun Alliance (now Royal and Sun Alliance) in 1984. The Phoenix papers are used to analyse the triumphs and trials, not only of a single insurance venture, but of an entire financial sector in a notably turbulent century. Insurance is concerned with the way people drive, the way they retire, or buy their houses, or invest, or educate their children, or go to war. It follows that a major insurance history also throws light on many aspects of modern British social history. As the great composite offices expanded to offer fire, accident, marine, and life insurance across a single 'counter', so they caught within their dealings an increasingly representative slice of British commercial and social life.
| Author | : Clive Trebilcock |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 792 |
| Release | : 1985 |
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| Author | : Clive Trebilcock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 812 |
| Release | : 1986-01-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521254144 |
This is the first volume of a major two-part history of one of Britain's largest and longest-lived insurance ventures. For much of the nineteenth century Phoenix was the economy's biggest fire office. It pioneered the export of fire insurance and was the most committed insurer of industrial property. Though primarily a business history, the study has much wider implications. Connections between Phoenix's history and that of Britain's industrial economy in its heyday are fully exploited. Insurance records provide windows upon such issues as the wealth embodied in early industrial growth, the patterns of credit available to improving landlords, the investment required for urban expansion, the difficulties of predicting Victorian mortality, and the launching of 'invisible' exports. Much of the treatment is comparative, so the result is a history not simply of one fire office but of a rapidly expanding service industry.
| Author | : Nigel Edward Morecroft |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2017-04-22 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 331951850X |
This book explores the origins and development of the asset management profession in Britain as a distinct activity within financial services, independent of banks and stockbrokers. Specifically, it identifies the main individuals and institutions after 1868 who established the profession. The book draws a distinction between banks (short-term deposit-taking) and asset management (an investment service with longer-term objectives). It explains why some banks fail but asset management businesses generally do not. It argues that asset management has been socially useful and has had a beneficial impact on the development of securities markets by offering choices to savers as an alternative to banks, improving the efficiency of capital allocation, re-cycling excess savings productively and enabling a range of investors - from institutions to individuals - to benefit from thoughtful, long-term investing.
| Author | : David Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 485 |
| Release | : 2024-10-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1040241522 |
This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives.
| Author | : R. J. Morris |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2005-02-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781139442725 |
This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. He argues that these were essentially 'networked' families created and affirmed by a 'gift' network of material goods, finance, services and support, with property very much at the centre of middle-class survival strategies. His approach combines microhistorical studies of individual families with a broader analysis of the national and even international networks within which these families operated. The result is a significant contribution to the history, and to debates about the place of structural and cultural analysis in historical understanding.
| Author | : Martin Gorsky |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780861932450 |
Bristol in the 19th century was characterized by the development of voluntary organizations, which set out to address problems and promote good. This text is a study of the debate over control of civic charities during this era of municipal reform.
| Author | : Ron Harris |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2000-06-19 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780521662758 |
This 2000 book addresses the discrepancy between the developing economy of England and the stagnant legal framework of business organization between 1720 and 1844.
| Author | : Roger Burrows |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2016-07-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1349217255 |
An edited collection exploring divisions and changes within and between the spheres of consumption and production. Topics include: the relationship between consumption and production; the social construction of consumers; housing and social class mobility; health provision; the role of the 'service class'; and access to higher education. Peter Saunders' work provides the initial stimulus for many of the papers, but all go beyond his narrow conception of a sociology of consumption and his liberal analysis of patterns of social inequality.
| Author | : Theodore M. Porter |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2020-08-18 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0691208417 |
"A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification"--
