The Development of International Insurance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138661387)

Robin Pearson is Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, UK. He has published widely on various aspects of British and international economic and business history, with a particular focus on insurance. His first book, Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance and the British Economy, 1700-1850, won the 2004 Wadsworth Prize for Business History. He has recently finished a book, Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored with Mark Freeman (University of Glasgow) and James Taylor (Lancaster University), forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. He is currently working on a project entitled Insuring America: Multinational Insurance Companies in the United States, 1850-1920.