The era of the insurance giants, 1870-1984
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The era of the insurance giants, 1870-1984
（Phoenix Assurance and the development of British insurance / Clive Trebilcock, v. 2）
Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 1029-1039) and index
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Description
This is the second and final volume of the business history of one of the UK's oldest and largest insurance offices, based upon probably the best archive in the business. This volume covers the period from 1870 to the absorption of the Phoenix by Sun Alliance (now Royal and Sun Alliance) in 1984. The Phoenix papers are used to analyse the triumphs and trials, not only of a single insurance venture, but of an entire financial sector in a notably turbulent century. Insurance is concerned with the way people drive, the way they retire, or buy their houses, or invest, or educate their children, or go to war. It follows that a major insurance history also throws light on many aspects of modern British social history. As the great composite offices expanded to offer fire, accident, marine, and life insurance across a single 'counter', so they caught within their dealings an increasingly representative slice of British commercial and social life.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Phoenix in the home market 1870-1914
- 2. The overseas dimension resumed 1870-1914
- 3. The Phoenix rises in the United States
- 4. Phoenix and profit-making in the foreign market: the world map 1870-1914
- 5. The quest for a composite insurance company
- 6. Insurance and total war 1914-18
- 7. The expansion, and strange contraction, of a composite
- 8. The Phoenix, the insurance sector and the UK economy of the interwar years
- 9. The Phoenix and the world's largest insurance market 1918-39
- 10. The rest of the foreign markets 1918-39
- 11. The Phoenix and total war 1939-45
- 12. From war to the end 1945-84
- Conclusion.
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