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The Industry from the End of the Victorian Era to 1914

In: The British Insurance Industry Since 1900

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  • Robert L. Carter

    (University of Nottingham)

  • Peter Falush

Abstract

The British insurance industry at the beginning of the twentieth century (the end of the Victorian era) was undoubtedly the most developed in the world, looking back on a history dating from the sixteenth century, with immense achievements in both life and general insurance. The successful evolution of this sector was made possible by the combination of Britain’s scientific, industrial, commercial and imperial achievements, the building of which commenced well before the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This advantage was reinforced after the Napoleonic War by the expansion of Britain’s colonial empire, which reached across the world by the start of the twentieth century.

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  • Robert L. Carter & Peter Falush, 2009. "The Industry from the End of the Victorian Era to 1914," Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, in: The British Insurance Industry Since 1900, chapter 1, pages 3-14, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pmschp:978-0-230-23952-4_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230239524_1
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