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Synopsis
This is the first volume of a major two-part history of one of Britain's largest and longest-lived insurance ventures. For much of the nineteenth century Phoenix was the economy's biggest fire office. It pioneered the export of fire insurance and was the most committed insurer of industrial property. Though primarily a business history, the study has much wider implications. Connections between Phoenix's history and that of Britain's industrial economy in its heyday are fully exploited. Insurance records provide windows upon such issues as the wealth embodied in early industrial growth, the patterns of credit available to improving landlords, the investment required for urban expansion, the difficulties of predicting Victorian mortality, and the launching of 'invisible' exports. Much of the treatment is comparative, so the result is a history not simply of one fire office but of a rapidly expanding service industry.
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"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
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This is the story of the expansion, trials, triumphs, and demise of one of Britain's oldest and most important insurance offices. Through the windows of the Phoenix, the development of the modern insurance business can be studied, while many aspects of social and commercial life in twentieth-century Britain are highlighted.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0521254140
- ISBN 13 9780521254144
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages812
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Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: Volume 1, 1782â"1870
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Cambridge University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0521254140
ISBN 13: 9780521254144
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003224933
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Phoenix Assurance & The Development Of British Insurance - Volume I - 1782 - 1870
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985
ISBN 10: 0521254140
ISBN 13: 9780521254144
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition and first printing. History of the old Phoenix Fire Office company. In as new smart bright blue cloth boards with gilt Phoenix Assurance logo to front, red title field to spine with gilt titles. Unmarked intense blue end papers. The text block is in as new condition and illustrated with black and white charts, accounts and maps etc. Obviously never read or used. No dedications etc. In fine pictorial dust jacket with period busy street scene with fire brigade and orange and white titles. The jacket is clean and close fitting with sound edges. Not price clipped. Heavy. Please contact us for cost of postage if shipping outside the UK. Seller Inventory # 70596
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