The Tontine, Volume 1
Title | The Tontine, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas B. Costain |
Publisher | Rare Treasure Editions |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 2021-11-23T14:14:00Z |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1774644967 |
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.
The Tontine
Title | The Tontine PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Bertram Costain |
Publisher | London : Collins |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
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.
King William's Tontine
Title | King William's Tontine PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe A. Milevsky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2015-04-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107076129 |
The book reviews the finance, economics, and history of tontines, and argues that they should be resurrected in the twenty-first century.
The great tontine
Title | The great tontine PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Hawley Smart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
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The Wrong Box
Title | The Wrong Box PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | Aeterna Classics |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3964541206 |
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.
The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825 Vol 1
Title | The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825 Vol 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Jose R Torre |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2024-10-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1040246907 |
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.
The Tontine: A History
Title | The Tontine: A History PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew McDiarmid |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2024-10-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1040251625 |
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.