The Royal Exchange Assurance: A History of British Insurance, 1720 - 1970 [signed]

Physical description; xxii, 584 p., 19 plates (incl. 1 fold) : ill. (some col.), 2 facsims., 3 ports. (1 col.) ; 24 cm. Notes; SIGNED by the author. Bibliography: p. [550]-564. Contents; The origins of a corporation: insurance and company promotion in the early eighteenth century -- Creating a corporation: the organization of the Royal Exchange Assurance, 1719-21 -- Growth and capital in eighteenth-century insurance -- Competition and harmony in eighteenth-century fire insurance -- The growth of fire and life insurance to 1870 -- The transformation of British fire and life insurance: competition and control in the nineteenth century -- The Royal Exchange Assurance in the early nineteenth century: fire underwriting -- The Royal Exchange Assurance in the early nineteenth century: life underwriting -- Privilege and competition: marine insurance and the Royal Exchange Assurance to 1870 -- The growth of insurance underwriting, 1870-1914 -- The development of the Royal Exchange Assurance, 1870-1914 -- The implications of industrial growth: competition, control and amalgamation in insurance, 1870-1914 -- Investment funds and capital markets, 1800-1914 -- Organization and management to 1914 -- The establishment, 1838-1914 -- Corporate presence: the Royal Exchange Assurance in the nineteenth century -- Insurance in an age of violence, 1912-20 -- British insurance between the wars -- The development of the Royal Exchange Assurance between the wars -- A world-wide business: the Royal Exchange Assurance overseas, 1890-1939 -- Organization and control, 1917-39 -- The Royal Exchange Assurance since 1939 -- Conclusion: enterprise and tradition. Subjects; Royal Exchange Assurance (Firm). Royal Exchange Assurance Studies. Royal Exchange Assurance (Firm) History. Geschichte 1720. Great Britain Insurance Companies (1720-1970) History. Insurance. Fire insurance. Commerce. Economic history. Social history. Royal exchange assurance - history - insurance. insurance. Genre; History.