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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

Underwriters of the United States examines how Insurance Shaped the American Founding, combining Hannah Farber's clear narrative with the perspective of a historical account. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of business & economics and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2021
Format: Print edition
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9781469663630

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