ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
British Life Insurance in the 1840s
part |2 pages
The Emergence of American Life Insurance
part |2 pages
Early Prospectuses
part |1 pages
Proposals and Rates of the Standard Life Assurance Company (1833)
part |2 pages
New American Prospectuses
part |2 pages
John Freestone, Where to Insure: An Impartial and Independent Guide (1890),Excerpt
part |2 pages
Religion and LifE Insurance in America
part |1 pages
‘Prospectus of the Dissenters’ and General Life and Fire Assurance Company’, Eclectic Review (1839), Excerpt
part |2 pages
Life Insurance as a Domestic Duty
part |2 pages
Benefit Societies Versus Saving Banks and Insurance Companies: An Address to the Members of Benefit So Cieties and the Public in General (1822)
part |2 pages
Life Insurance and Savings Banks in America
part |2 pages
Insurance and Self-Help in Britain
part |2 pages
Insurance and Self-Help in America
part |2 pages
Josiah C. Nott, ‘Statistics of Southern Slave Population, With Especial Reference to Life Insurance’, Debow’S Commercial Review (1847)
part |2 pages
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (Ed.), Some Efforts of American Negroes for Their Own Social Betterment (1898), Excerpt
part |2 pages
Arthur Wyndham Tarn, ‘Some Notes on Life Assurance in Greater Britain’, Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1899), Excerpt
part |2 pages
Industrial Insurance in Britain
part |2 pages
Industrial Insurance in America
part |2 pages
[Pelican Life Insurance Company], ‘Life Insurance. to Parents, Guardians, and Others, Desirous of Securing a Provision Against Sudden Death’, New-York Evening Post (1808)
part |3 pages
The ‘American Invasion’
