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Zusatztext For the first time, historians working across a range of subjects from finance and economic modernization to social welfare and even religion have access to a systematic account of how the insurance industry has transformed the risk environment faced by billions around the world and how that process has knit together the economies and fortunes of far flung societies and cultures ... Whether the post-2008 financial debacle will induce a return to a more stringent regulatory environment and a new generation of statist approaches to insurance is a question that must await a sequel to Borscheid and Haueters imposing and standard-setting World Insurance. Informationen zum Autor Peter Borscheid is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the University of Marburg. He has published numerous monographs on the history of science and technology, the history of the textile industry, the standard of living, the history of old age, and old-age pension, the cultural history of acceleration. He led several projects and international working groups on insurance history. He also served as a member of the German government commission "The situation of the older generation in the Federal Republic of Germany". Niels Viggo Haueter is Head of Swiss Reinsurance Company's Corporate History team and the company's historical archives. He serves as an academic advisor on insurance and reinsurance history to the European Association for Banking and Financial History in Frankfurt. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This book is the first to trace comprehensively the history and development of the international insurance and re-insurance business around the world across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa, Far East and Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Peter Borscheid: Introduction Part I. Europe 2: Peter Borscheid: Europe: Overview 3: Robin Pearson: United Kingdom: Pioneering insurance internationally 4: Peter Borscheid: Germany: Insurance, expansion and setbacks 5: AndrÃ(c) Straus: France: Insurance and the French financial networks 6: Martin Lengwiler: Switzerland: Insurance and the need to export 7: Giandomenico Piluso: Italy: Building on a long insurance heritage 8: Jerònia Pons Pons: Spain: International influence on the domestic insurance market 9: Yuri A. Petrov: Russia: Early expansion, state involvement, and re-emergence of the insurance industry Part II. North America 10: Peter Borscheid: North America: Overview 11: Matthias Kipping and James Darroch: Canada: Taking life insurance abroad 12: Christopher Kobrak: USA: The international attraction of the US insurance market Part III. Sub-Saharan Africa 13: Peter Borscheid: Sub-Saharan Africa: Overview 14: Grietjie Verhoef: South Africa: Leading African insurance Part IV. Middle East and Northern Africa 15: Peter Borscheid: Middle East and Northern Africa: Overview 16: Samir Saul: Maghreb: Naturalising insurance in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia 17: Frauke Heard-Bey: United Arab Emirates: Economic boom and insurance Part V. Far East and Pacific 18: Peter Borscheid: Far East and Pacific: Overview 19: G. Balachandran: India: From a colonial outpost to a leading market 20: David Faure and Elisabeth Köll: China: The indigenisation of insurance 21: Takau Yoneyama,: Japan: The role of insurance in the rapid modernisation of Japan 22: Myung Hwi Lee and Duol Kim: Korea: Insurance in a tiger market 23: Monica J. Keneley: Australia and New Zealand: A tradition continued creating a domestic insurance market Part VI. Latin America and Caribbean 24: Peter Borscheid: Latin America and Caribbean: Overview 25: Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and Felipe Tâmega Fernandes: Brazil: The resilience of the Brazilian insurance market 26: G...
