This is the first volume of a major two-part history of one of Britain's largest and longest-lived insurance ventures. For much of the nineteenth century Phoenix was the economy's biggest fire office. It pioneered the export of fire insurance and was the most committed insurer of industrial property. Though primarily a business history, the study has much wider implications. Connections between Phoenix's history and that of Britain's industrial economy in its heyday are fully exploited. Insurance records provide windows upon such issues as the wealth embodied in early industrial growth, the patterns of credit available to improving landlords, the investment required for urban expansion, the difficulties of predicting Victorian mortality, and the launching of 'invisible' exports. Much of the treatment is comparative, so the result is a history not simply of one fire office but of a rapidly expanding service industry.

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: Volume 1, 1782–1870

History

Trebilcock, Clive

Europe

Cambridge University Press

This is the story of the expansion, trials, triumphs and demise of one of Britain's oldest and most important insurance offices. The records of the Phoenix are unusually rich. This, therefore, is more than the history of a single business. The insurance industry touches many aspects of modern life and the two have grown more complex together. Through the windows of the Phoenix the development of the entire modern insurance business can be studied and, at the same time, many aspects of social and commercial life in twentieth-century Britain are thrown into prominence.

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: Volume 2, The Era of the Insurance Giants 1870–1984

Business & Money

Insurance

The Industrialisation of the Continental Powers is both a broad survey of the process of European industrialisation from the late eighteenth century to the First World War, and also a closely argued comparative economic study of how this process was experienced by different great powers.

The industrialization of the continental powers, 1780-1914

Longman

<i>The Industrialisation of the Continental Powers </i>is both a broad survey of the process of European industrialisation from the late eighteenth century to the First World War, and also a closely argued comparative economic study of how this process was experienced by different great powers.

The Industrialization of the Continental Powers 1780-1914, The

Industries

Routledge

The Vickers Brothers: Armaments and enterprise, 1854-1914 (The Europa library of business biography)

Europa

Industrialisation of the Continental Powers 1780-1914, The

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