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Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions ISBN: 1774644967 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 702
Book Description
Spanning 60+ years, beginning on the day Waterloo was won, it is a multigenerational story of 3 families during the Industrial Revolution. Lots of detailed descriptions of life among the varied social classes, it has been likened to stories by Dickens. It’s a very good historical fiction. A tontine is a life insurance scheme, stratified by age. Enrollees received payouts after an initial growth period, the amounts determined by the number of living recipients. Over time, as participants died, the payouts became more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients became a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurred in the general populace on who would be the last survivor.
Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions ISBN: 1774644967 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 702
Book Description
Spanning 60+ years, beginning on the day Waterloo was won, it is a multigenerational story of 3 families during the Industrial Revolution. Lots of detailed descriptions of life among the varied social classes, it has been likened to stories by Dickens. It’s a very good historical fiction. A tontine is a life insurance scheme, stratified by age. Enrollees received payouts after an initial growth period, the amounts determined by the number of living recipients. Over time, as participants died, the payouts became more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients became a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurred in the general populace on who would be the last survivor.
Author: Thomas Bertram Costain Publisher: London : Collins ISBN: Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A London con man creates a tontine wherein the surviving members receive interest on their investment, while the capital, after some years, is to go to the care of veterans.
Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 1456636715 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 633
Book Description
Richard O'Rawn had lived a long, full life. He had attained material success. He had served his country well in the United States Senate, loved and respected by his constituents and the rest of the nation. Now that his life was almost at an end, Senator O'Rawn had to share the mystery he had kept secret for so many years with someone else. It was a mystery set in lusty Plantagenet England and revolving around Eleanor of Aquitaine, her granddaughter--the beautiful "lost princess"--and the historic signing of the Magna Carta. Together with a young American writer, Richard O'Rawn would take his last journey back through the centuries--a journey rich with intrigue, romance, and adventure.
Author: Moshe A. Milevsky Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107076129 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
The book reviews the finance, economics, and history of tontines, and argues that they should be resurrected in the twenty-first century.
Author: Jose R Torre Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040246907 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 406
Book Description
Aims to modify the periodization for the American Enlightenment. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. This collection highlights the functional nature of the Enlightenment in America.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Aeterna Classics ISBN: 3964541206 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.
Author: Thomas B. Costain Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 542
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The White and the Gold" (The French Regime in Canada [Canadian History Series #1]) by Thomas B. Costain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Andrew McDiarmid Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040251625 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 120
Book Description
From the last decades of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth, the tontine, in one form or another, was a ubiquitous financial instrument. As a revenue-raising tool of governments it supported the cost of war, and as a private capital-raising instrument it provided funding for civic improvement and urban development projects. While the tontine is known today mainly through fictional works (Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, and The Simpsons among others), this book tells the history of how it evolved from a public revenue-raising scheme into a popular private investment and infrastructure financing tool, before it was displaced by cheaper forms of borrowing. Focusing on the early development of the tontine, and with European and North American case studies, the narrative brings to life the story of a little-understood financial innovation. This concise and engaging book is an ideal introduction to the history of the tontine for all readers interested in financial history.
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Thomas Bertram Costain
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Moshe A. Milevsky
Author: Jose R Torre
Author: Henry Hawley Smart
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Author: Andrew McDiarmid