{"id":45960,"date":"2025-01-14T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/investing-in-life-insurance-in-antebellum-america-studies-in-early-american-economy-and-society-from-the-library-company-of-philadelphia\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T10:32:39","slug":"investing-in-life-insurance-in-antebellum-america-studies-in-early-american-economy-and-society-from-the-library-company-of-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/investing-in-life-insurance-in-antebellum-america-studies-in-early-american-economy-and-society-from-the-library-company-of-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">$19.95<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Jan 14, 2025 10:32:39 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B07DFPD2CW?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n  A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America.<\/p>\n<p>Investing in Life\u00a0considers 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.<\/p>\n<p>Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also 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.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy examines insurance as both a business and a social phenomenon. She 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.<\/p>\n<p>Winner, Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference<\/p>\n<p>Praise for Investing in Life<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA well-written, well-argued book that makes a number of important contributions to the history of business and capitalism in antebellum America.\u201d \u2014Sean H. Vanatta, Common Place<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn intriguing, instructive history of the establishment and development of the life insurance industry that reveals a good deal about changing social and commercial conditions in antebellum America .\u00a0.\u00a0. Highly recommended.\u201d \u2014Choice    <\/p>\n<p> ASIN                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 B07DFPD2CW <br \/> Publisher                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Johns Hopkins University Press; Illustrated edition (October 1, 2010) <br \/> Publication date                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 October 1, 2010 <br \/> Language                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 English <br \/> File size                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 4240 KB <br \/> Text-to-Speech                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Enabled <br \/> Screen Reader                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Supported <br \/> Enhanced typesetting                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Enabled <br \/> X-Ray                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Not Enabled <br \/> Word Wise                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Enabled <br \/> Print length                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 410 pages <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America. 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