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050 00 $aHG8951$b.M87 2010
082 00 $a368.3200973/09034$222
100 1 $aMurphy, Sharon Ann,$d1974-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009069465
245 10 $aInvesting in life :$binsurance in antebellum America /$cSharon Ann Murphy.
260 $aBaltimore, Md. :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2010.
300 $axii, 395 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPart I.$tThe Creation of an Industry -- $g1.$tUnderstanding Mortality in Antebellum America: The Search for a Stable Business Model -- $g2.$tSelecting Risks in an Anonymous World: The Development of the Agency System -- $g3.$tLying, Cheating, and Stealing versus The Court of Public Opinion: Preventing Moral Hazard and Insurance Fraud -- $g4.$tThe Public Interest in a Private Industry: Life Insurance and the Regulatory-Promotional State -- $gPart II.$tReaching Out to the Middle Class -- $g5.$tProtecting Women and Children "in the hour of their distress": Targeting the Fears of an Emerging Middle Class -- $g6.$tTargeting the Aspirations of an Emerging Middle Class: The Triumph of Mutual Life Insurance Companies -- $g7.$tSecuring Human Property: Slavery, Industrialization, and Urbanization in the Upper South -- $g8.$tActing "in defiance of Providence"? The Public Perception of Life Insurance -- $gPart III.$tCooperation, Competition, and the Quest for Stability -- $g9.$tSeeking Stability in an Increasingly Competitive Industry: The Creation of the American Life Underwriters' Convention -- $g10.$tInsuring Soldiers, Insuring Civilians: The Civil War as a Watershed for the Life Insurance Industry -- $g11.$tThe Perils of Success during the Postbellum Years.
520 1 $a"Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class." "Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt slavery to an urban, industrialized setting; the rise of statistical thinking; and efforts to regulate the business environment. Her research directly challenges the conclusions of previous scholars who have dismissed the importance of the earliest industry innovators while exaggerating clerical opposition to life insurance." "Examining insurance as both a business and a social phenomenon, Murphy looks at how insurance companies positioned themselves within the marketplace, calculated risks associated with disease, intemperance, occupational hazard, and war, and battled fraud, murder, and suicide. She also discusses the role of consumers---their reasons for purchasing life insurance, their perceptions of the industry, and how their desires and demands shaped the ultimate product."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLife insurance$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aInsurance companies$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$yTo 1865.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140021
830 0 $aStudies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002116898
852 00 $bglx$hHG8951$i.M87 2010