Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America

by Sharon Ann Murphy

Book Overview

Investing in Life considers 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.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080189624X
• ISBN13: 9780801896248
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"