Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2010)
Book Chapter
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
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 relations...
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