{"product_id":"the-appeal-of-insurance-paperback-softback-9781487558116","title":"The Appeal of Insurance (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487558116","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Appeal of Insurance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeoffrey W. Clark (Edited by), Greg Anderson (Edited by), Christian Thomann (Edited by), J. Matthias-Graf von der Schulenburg (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487558116\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 July 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w figures, 4 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsurance today is a global economic colossus and a fixture in the developed countries of the world. Dependant upon a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal, the insurance industry has become a pervasive agent of social and economic control through its delineation of acceptable (compensated) and unacceptable (uncompensated) risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Appeal of Insurance\u003c\/em\u003e traces the ways in which insurance, over the past three centuries, has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays break new ground in insurance studies by illuminating the dialectical relationship between the expansion of the insurance business and the public demand for economic and social security.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cem\u003eby \u003c\/em\u003eGeoffrey Clark (State University of New York at Potsdam) and Gregory Anderson (Salford University)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003e How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust and Expertise in 18th-century German Proto-Insurances \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Work on Insurance \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg (Leibniz University) and Christian Thomann (University of Alabama)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Slave’s Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Geoffrey Clark\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Robin Pearson (University of Hull)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e A License to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British Courts \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Timothy Alborn (Lehman College, City University of New York)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e ‘The rules of prudence’: political liberalism and life assurance in the nineteenth century \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Liz Mcfall (The Open University)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Honesty, Fidelity and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Gregory Anderson (University of Salford)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Competing Appeals: the rise of mixed welfare economies in Europe, 1850-1945\u003cem\u003e by\u003c\/em\u003e Martin Lengwiler (University of Zurich)\u003cbr\u003e  Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain (1900-1963) \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e JerÒnia Pons Pons (University of Seville) \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFive Ironies of Insurance \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Aaron Oyle (University of Ottawa) and Richard Ericson (University of Toronto)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523254350104,"sku":"9781487558116","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-appeal-of-insurance-paperback-softback-9781487558116","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}