Download or read book Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1 written by Timothy Alborn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.