Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850 by Robin Pearson

Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850

Modern Economic and Social History

Robin Pearson

448 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history informative medium-paced
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Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken seriously, it was not unti...

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