Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Pearson, Robin

doi:10.3138/9781442685888

Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Pearson, Robin

Authors

Professor Robin Pearson R.Pearson@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Economic History

Contributors

Geoffrey Clark
Editor

Gregory Anderson
Editor

Christian Thomann
Editor

J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
Editor

Abstract

About this book
The Appeal of Insurance explores how insurance has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, criminology and economics, these essays illuminate the dialectical relationship between the expansion of business and the public demand for economic and social security.

Citation

Pearson, R. (2010). Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain. In G. Clark, G. Anderson, C. Thomann, & J.-M. G. von der Schulenburg (Eds.), The Appeal of Insurance (75 - 106). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685888

Publication Date	2010
Deposit Date	Oct 1, 2018
Publisher	University of Toronto Press
Pages	75 - 106
Book Title	The Appeal of Insurance
Chapter Number	4
ISBN	978-1-4426-4065-8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685888
Public URL	https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/409771
Contract Date	May 1, 2010