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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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 changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt slavery to an urban, industrialized setting; the rise of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080189624X
ISBN13:9780801896248
Release Date:October 2010
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:395 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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