Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America
(Part of the Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Series)
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Winner, Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1421411946
ISBN13:9781421411941
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.32 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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