Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: Volume 2, The Era of the Insurance Giants 1870–1984 - Couverture rigide

Trebilcock, Clive

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ISBN 10 : 0521254159 ISBN 13 : 9780521254151

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The history of Phoenix Assurance, one of Britain's oldest insurance offices, between 1870 and 1984.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"In the second of two substantial volumes chronicling the history of the Phoenix Assurance Company, Clive Trebilcock provides a meticulously detailed account of the British insurer's second century." Journal of Economics

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521254159
• ISBN 13: 9780521254151
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1088
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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