Arwen P Mohun
Biographic Data
| ID | 957689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arwen P Mohun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arwen P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohun |
| SIGNATURE | MOHUN A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware , Newark, Delaware |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5575-7963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lost in the Scramble
Insurance Era
Midway through her compelling study of how twentieth-century insurance companies shaped American society and politics, Caley Horan shares a stunning fact. By 1964, Prudential Insurance Company claimed to be the third-largest privately held firm in the world. Primed by premiums pouring into its coffers, the company annually pumped an estimated $2.4 billion dollars of its accumulated capital back into the postwar U.S. economy. All that money transl…
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Dan Bouk. How Our Days Became Numbered
As chief statistician for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Frederick L. Hoffman spent many days lugging a typewriter around small-town graveyards in the South during the first decade of the twentieth century. In How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, Dan Bouk explains that this seemingly eccentric exercise had a serious purpose. Hoffman was tabulating birth and death dates from gravestones to fill gap…
Steam Laundries
Steam Laundries
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century Get access Goodman Nan, Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 198 pp. $39.50 (cloth). $22.99 (paper). Arwen P. Mohun Arwen P. Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journ…
The Evolution of Useful Things . Henry Petroski
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The Evolution of Useful Things . Henry Petroski
Steam Laundries
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century Get access Goodman Nan, Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 198 pp. $39.50 (cloth). $22.99 (paper). Arwen P. Mohun Arwen P. Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journ…
Steam Laundries
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Dan Bouk. How Our Days Became Numbered
As chief statistician for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Frederick L. Hoffman spent many days lugging a typewriter around small-town graveyards in the South during the first decade of the twentieth century. In How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, Dan Bouk explains that this seemingly eccentric exercise had a serious purpose. Hoffman was tabulating birth and death dates from gravestones to fill gap…
Insurance Era
Midway through her compelling study of how twentieth-century insurance companies shaped American society and politics, Caley Horan shares a stunning fact. By 1964, Prudential Insurance Company claimed to be the third-largest privately held firm in the world. Primed by premiums pouring into its coffers, the company annually pumped an estimated $2.4 billion dollars of its accumulated capital back into the postwar U.S. economy. All that money transl…
Lost in the Scramble
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