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Hannah Farber’s Underwriters of the United States is an excellent book on a greatly overlooked aspect of early American history, the rise of ma-rine insurance within United States’ nascent institutional landscape.
Sep 1, 2023 · In the hands of a less gifted writer and historian, a history of early American insurance risks becoming a dry recitation of numbers, charts, and legalistic minutiae, but Farber brings to life a world of interconnected people, nations, empires, and resources.
The goals of presenting a short review of the history of insurance are to provide a historical perspective on this industry; explain how it has developed with an emphasis on its recent history; and …
The Evolution of Insurance . ORIGINS OF RISK. At the dawn of modern human history, widely dispersed groups of tightly knit kin, whom we today refer to collectively as hunter -gatherers, relied almost exclusively on clan relatedness as their only bulwark against the ever - present risk of death, debilitating injury, and starvation.
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Our Library includes over 6000 volumes on the history of insurance, printed from 1500 to date. The collection of these valuable books began fifty years ago and is still ongoing, through a constant search for texts from the past ...
Insurance companies, mutuals and cooperatives enable individ- uals and firms to protect themselves against infrequent but extreme losses at a cost which is small compared to the feared loss.
