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  title info:
    title: World insurance
    sub title: the evolution of a global risk network
  name:
    name part: Borscheid, Peter.
  name:
    name part: Haueter, Niels Viggo.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Case studies
  genre: History
  genre: Case studies.
  genre: Études de cas.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2012
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 729 pages)
  abstract: Since the end of the eighteenth century, the insurance industry has cast a safety net around the world, first in the British Isles and then further afield, irrespective of cultural, political and ideological divides. Unlike previous publications on insurance history, which tend to discuss the development of national markets or individual companies, this book focuses on the creation of networks across borders from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Distinguished international economic historians draw upon examples from twenty countries across the continents to demonstrate how what was called the 'British system' of risk management spread out in waves, and describes the forces that made this possible - first among them migration from Europe and international trade. The book explores the economic, political, religious, and cultural obstacles that blocked the path of this European invention - not only religious law and traditional practices, but above all protectionism, inflation, and political ideologies. It examines the process of transformation through which modern insurance supplanted traditional forms of protection against perils and risks and was able to keep on offering new ways of dealing with the risks of modern life. As wellas discussing primary insurance, it also considers the role played by reinsurance, without which the losses arising out of today's natural and man-made disasters would be immeasurably greater. Finally, taking modern-day disaster scenarios as examples, the book shows just what the limits of insurability are and what risks worldwide networks entail.
  table of contents: Europe -- North America -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Middle East and Northern Africa -- Far East and Pacific -- Latin America and Caribbean.
  note: edited by Peter Borscheid and Niels Viggo Haueter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Insurance
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Insurance
    topic: History
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Assurance
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Assurance
    topic: Histoire
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Insurance
    topic: Risk Assessment & Management
  subject:
    topic: Insurance
  classification: HG8027
  classification: 368.009
  related item:
    title info:
      title: World insurance
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
    identifier: (OCoLC)792747131
  identifier: 9780191632303
  identifier: 0191632309
  identifier: 1283588919
  identifier: 9781283588911
  identifier: 9780199657964
  identifier: 9786613901361
  identifier: 6613901369
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 120903
    record change date: 20260318191330.4
    record identifier: in00005709001
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng