Development of International Insurance

Robin Pearson is Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, UK. He has published widely on various aspects of British and international economic and business history, with a particular focus on insurance. His first book, Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance and the British Economy, 1700–1850, won the 2004 Wadsworth Prize for Business History. He has recently finished a book, Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored with Mark Freeman (University of Glasgow) and James Taylor (Lancaster University), forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. He is currently working on a project entitled Insuring America: Multinational Insurance Companies in the United States, 1850–1920.

• Introduction: Towards an International History of Insurance, RobinPearson; Chapter 1 The Marine Insurance Market for British Textile Exports to the River Plate and Chile, c. 1810–50, Manuel Llorca-Jaña; Chapter 2 Actuarial Practice, Probabilistic Thinking and Actuarial Science in Private Casualty Insurance, Christofer Stadlin; Chapter 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, Jerònia Pons Pons; Chapter 4 Multilateral Insurance Liberalization, 1948–2008, Welf Werner; Chapter 5 Policyholders in the Early Business of Japanese Life Assurance: A Demand-Side Study, Takau Yoneyama; Chapter 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, Liselotte Eriksson; Chapter 7 From Economic to Political Reality: Forming a Nationalized Indian Life Insurance Market, Adrian Jitschin; Chapter 8 Life Offices to the Rescue! A History of the Role of Life Insurance in the South African Economy During the Twentieth Century, Grietjie Verhoef; Chapter 9 Competing Globalizations: Controversies Between Private and Social Insurance at International Organizations, 1900–60, Martin Lengwiler;