Insuring the Industrial Revolution
Subtitle: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850 (Modern Economic and Social History)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780754633631
Subjects: Insurance, Fire; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; Insurance - Casualty; British Isles; Insurance; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: This chapter examines the growth of fire insurance in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, places the industry in its economic context and explores some of the likely determinants of its growth.