CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

List of Figures and Tables

pp xi-xiv

List of Contributors

pp xv-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-24

Part I - Non-Life Insurance

1 - The Marine Insurance Market for British Textile Exports to the River Plate and Chile, c. 1810–50

pp 25-36

2 - Actuarial Practice, Probabilistic Thinking and Actuarial Science in Private Casualty Insurance

pp 37-62

3 - The Difficulties of Spanish Insurance Companies to Modernize during the Franco Years: The Mechanization of Administrative Tasks and the Introduction of the First Computers, 1950–70

pp 63-84

4 - Multilateral Insurance Liberalization, 1948–2008

pp 85-102

Part II - Life, Health and Social Insurance

5 - Policyholders in the Early Business of Japanese Life Assurance: A Demand-Side Study

pp 103-116

6 - Industrial Life Insurance and the Cost of Dying: The Role of Endowment and Whole Life Insurance in Anglo-Saxon and European Countries during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries

pp 117-132

7 - From Economic to Political Reality: Forming a Nationalized Indian Life Insurance Market

pp 133-144

8 - Life Offices to the Rescue! A History of the Role of Life Assurance in the South African Economy during the Twentieth Century

pp 145-166

9 - Competing Globalizations: Controversies between Private and Social Insurance at International Organizations, 1900–60

pp 167-186

Notes

pp 187-228

Works Cited

pp 229-246

Index

pp 247-261