The Appeal of Insurance

Introduction by Geoffrey Clark (State University of New York at Potsdam) and Gregory Anderson (Salford University)

1. How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust and Expertise in 18th-century German Proto-Insurances by Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)
2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Work on Insurance by J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg (Leibniz University) and Christian Thomann (University of Alabama)
3. The Slave’s Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property by Geoffrey Clark
4. Fire, Property Insurance and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Robin Pearson (University of Hull)
5. A License to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British Courts by Timothy Alborn (Lehman College, City University of New York)
6. ‘The rules of prudence’: political liberalism and life assurance in the nineteenth century by Liz Mcfall (The Open University)
7. Honesty, Fidelity and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England by Gregory Anderson (University of Salford)
8. Competing Appeals: the rise of mixed welfare economies in Europe, 1850-1945 by Martin Lengwiler (University of Zurich)
   Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain (1900-1963) by JerÒnia Pons Pons (University of Seville)
9. Five Ironies of Insurance by Aaron Oyle (University of Ottawa) and Richard Ericson (University of Toronto)