This handbook shows that business history is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, producing compelling empirical data which has sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested widely-held views in management and the social sciences.

Risk and reinsurance / Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones -- The cultural context of insurance in the West / Geoffrey Clark -- The evolution of the industry structure / Robin Pearson -- The monetary and financial environment, 1860-2013 / Forrest Capie -- Calculating the unpredictable :...