The Tontine: A History

By Andrew McDiarmid

Book Overview

For almost 200 years, beginning in the late seventeenth century, the tontine - essentially, a shared investment fund with benefit of survivorship - was a ubiquitous financial instrument. From meeting rooms to libraries, public baths to theatres, from armies to medicine and on to religion, the scheme was everywhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103279206X
• ISBN13: 9781032792064
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"